A novel bipolar-MOSFET low-noise amplifier (BiFET LNA), circuit configuration, design methodology, and chip implementation

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2175-2180

  Ma, Pingxi ^a,b   Racanelli, Marco ^a,b   Zheng, Jie ^a,b   Knight, Marion ^a  

^a Jazz Semiconductor   (United States)

^b IEEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bipolar; Bipolar cascoded with a mosFET (BiFET); Low noise amplifier (LNA); MOSFET

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; MOSFET DEVICES; PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TRANSCONDUCTANCE; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

LOW-NOISE AMPLIFIER; VOLTAGE GAIN;

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 0242468147     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2003.818581     Document Type: Article

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