WCDMA direct-conversion receiver front-end comparison in RF-CMOS and SiGe BiCMOS

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 53, Issue 4 I, 2005, Pages 1181-1188

  Floyd, Brian A ^a   Reynolds, Scott K ^a   Zwick, Thomas ^a   Khuon, Lunal ^b   Beukema, Troy ^a   Pfeiffer, Ullrich R ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

BiCMOS; Direct conversion receiver; Local oscillator (LO) buffer; Low noise amplifier (LNA); Mixer; RF CMOS; SiGe; Technology assessment; Wide band code division multiple access (WCDMA)

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); BANDWIDTH; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; GERMANIUM; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

BICMOS; DIRECT-CONVERSION RECEIVER; LOCAL OSCILLATOR (LO) BUFFER; LOW-NOISE AMPLIFIER (LNA); MIXER; RF CMOS; SIGE; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; WIDE-BAND CODE-DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS (WCDMA);

SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

EID: 18744394691     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2005.845742     Document Type: Article

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