A novel gain boosting technique for design of low power narrow-band RFCMOS LNAs

Conference Proceedings - 2nd Annual IEEE Northeast Workshop on Circuits and Systems, NEWCAS 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 293-296

  Asgaran, S ^a   Deen, M Jamal ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cascode; CMOS; Low noise amplifier; Noise; RFIC

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CASCADE CONNECTIONS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; GAIN CONTROL; MOSFET DEVICES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NEGATIVE RESISTANCE; RADIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; TRANSCONDUCTANCE; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

CASCODE CONFIGURATION; GAIN BOOSTING; LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS (LNA); RADIO FREQUENCY INTEGRATED CIRCUITS (RFIC); VOLTAGE GAIN;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 14844297091     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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