A 32-GHz non-uniform distributed amplifier in 0.18-μm CMOS

IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 745-747

  Lu, Liang Hung ^a,b   Chen, Tai Yuan ^b   Lin, Yi Jay ^b  

^a IEEE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Broadband; CMOS distributed amplifiers; Gain bandwidth product; Monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC); Nonuniform synthetic transmission lines; Traveling wave amplifiers

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND; CMOS DISTRIBUTED AMPLIFIERS; GAIN-BANDWIDTH PRODUCT; NONUNIFORM SYNTHETIC TRANSMISSION LINES; TRAVELLING-WAVE AMPLIFIER;

BANDWIDTH; DC POWER TRANSMISSION; ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; POWER AMPLIFIERS;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 28744438116     PISSN: 15311309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2005.858986     Document Type: Article

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