RFIC's challenges for third generation wireless systems

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4592, Issue , 2001, Pages 183-195

  Boric Lubecke, Olga ^a   Lin, Jenshan ^b   Gould, Penny ^c   Kermalli, Munawar ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b AGERE SYSTEMS   (United States)

^c Bell Laboratories UK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3G; Base stations; Silicon RFIC; Wireless

Indexed keywords

INTERMODULATION; INTERNET; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; SILICON; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

BASE STATIONS (BS);

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0035768547     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.448965     Document Type: Article

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