A 4-mW monolithic CMOS LNA at 5.7 GHz with the gate resistance used for input matching

IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 188-190

  Asgaran, Saman ^b   Jamal Deen, M ^a   Chen, Chih Hung ^a  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

CMOS; Effective transconductance; Inductive degeneration; Input matching; Low noise amplifier

Indexed keywords

EFFECTIVE TRANSCONDUCTANCE; INDUCTIVE DEGENERATION; INPUT MATCHING; LOW-NOISE AMPLIFIER (LNA);

COMPARATOR CIRCUITS; DC GENERATOR MOTORS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; TRANSCONDUCTANCE;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 33645653059     PISSN: 15311309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2006.872128     Document Type: Article

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