30-40-GHz drain-pumped passive-mixer MMIC fabricated on VLSI SOI CMOS technology

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1382-1391

  Ellinger, Frank ^a   Rodoni, Lucio Carlo ^a   Sialm, Gion ^a   Kromer, Christian ^a   Von Büren, George ^a   Schmatz, Martin L ^b   Menolfi, Christian ^b   Toifl, Thomas ^b   Morf, Thomas ^b   Kossel, Marcel ^b   Jäckel, Heinz ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

CMOS; Millimeter wave frequency; Mixer; Monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC); Silicon on insulator (SOI)

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; FREQUENCIES; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MILLIMETER WAVES; MIXER CIRCUITS; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; TRANSCONDUCTANCE; VLSI CIRCUITS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

GATE LENGTH; MILLIMETER-WAVE FREQUENCY; RADIO FREQUENCIES (RF);

MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 2542476092     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2004.827004     Document Type: Article

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