A study of the correlation between high-frequency noise and phase noise in low-noise silicon-based transistors

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 52, Issue 1 I, 2004, Pages 183-190

  Cibiel, Gilles ^a,b   Escotte, Laurent ^a,b   Llopis, Olivier ^a,b  

^a LAAS CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

Author keywords

Bipolar transistors; High frequency (HF) noise; Microwave transistors; Noise figure; Phase noise; SiGe HBT

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); COMPUTER SIMULATION; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MIXER CIRCUITS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

HIGH-FREQUENCY NOISE; LOW-NOISE SILICON-BASED TRANSISTORS; MICROWAVE TRANSISTORS; PHASE NOISE;

BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS;

EID: 1242308435     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2003.821271     Document Type: Article

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