CMOS RF amplifier and mixer circuits utilizing complementary characteristics of parallel combined NMOS and PMOS devices

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1662-1671

  Nam, Ilku ^a,b   Kim, Bonkee ^c   Lee, Kwyro ^a,b  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b Remote Object Oriented Systems Research Center   (South Korea)

^c Integrant Technologies Inc   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Amplifier; CMOS; Complementary; Mixer; RF

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; MIXER CIRCUITS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SIGNAL PROCESSING;

COMMON-SOURCE (CS) DRIVERS; COMPLEMENTARY CHARACTERISTICS; LOCAL OSCILLATORS (LO); RF;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 19544390347     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2005.847059     Document Type: Article

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