A 0.25-μm CMOS ultra-wideband amplifier for time-domain UWB applications

Digest of Papers - IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 339-342

  Guan, Xin ^a   Nguyen, Cam ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CMOS RF IC; Distributed amplifier; UWB amplifier; UWB communications; UWB IC and systems

Indexed keywords

CMOS RF IC; DISTRIBUTED AMPLIFIERS; UWB AMPLIFIERS; UWB COMMUNICATION; UWB IC AND SYSTEMS;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDES;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 27644532677     PISSN: 15292517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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