Low-power-consumption and high-gain CMOS distributed amplifiers using cascade of inductively coupled common-source gain cells for UWB systems

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 3278-3283

  Guan, Xin ^b   Nguyen, Cam ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CMOS RF integrated circuit (IC); Distributed amplifiers; Low power consumption amplifiers; Low noise amplifiers (LNAS); RF IC; Ultra wideband (UWB) systems

Indexed keywords

CMOS RF INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (IC); DISTRIBUTED AMPLIFIERS; LOW POWER-CONSUMPTION AMPLIFIERS; LOW-NOISE AMPLIFIERS (LNAS); RF IC; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB) SYSTEMS;

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); BROADBAND NETWORKS; CASCADE CONNECTIONS; CELLS; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 33747265774     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2006.877812     Document Type: Article

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