Product Applications and Technology Directions with SiGe BiCMOS

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1471-1478

  Joseph, Alvin J ^a   Dunn, James ^a   Freeman, Greg ^a   Harame, David L ^a   Coolbaugh, Dough ^a   Groves, Rob ^a   Stein, Kenneth J ^a   Volant, Rich ^a   Subbanna, Seshadri ^a   Marangos, V S ^b   St Onge, Stephen ^a   Eshun, Ebenezer ^a   Cooper, P ^b   Johnson, Jeffrey B ^a   Rieh, Jae Sung ^a   Jagannathan, Basanth ^a   Ramachandran, Vidhya ^a   Ahlgren, David ^a   Wang, Dawn ^b,c   Wang, X ^b  

^a IBM MICROELECTRONICS   (United States)

^b IBM   (United States)

^c TRIQUINT SEMICONDUCTOR   (United States)

Author keywords

BiCMOS; Multiplexer (MUX); Power amplifier; SiGe HBT; Voltage controlled oscillator (VCO)

Indexed keywords

HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; MULTIPLEXING; POWER AMPLIFIERS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

SIGNAL INTEGRATION;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0041779674     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2003.815930     Document Type: Conference Paper

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