A low-power up-conversion CMOS mixer for 22-29-GHz ultra-wideband applications

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 3295-3300

  Verma, Ashok ^a,b   Kenneth, K O ^a,c   Lin, Jenshan ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Broadband; CMOS; Dual gate; K band; Mixer; Ultra wideband

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE RADAR APPLICATIONS; CMOS MIXERS; CONVERSION-GAIN BANDWIDTH; ULTRA-WIDEBAND APPLICATIONS;

AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING; BANDWIDTH; BROADBAND NETWORKS; FABRICATION; MIXER CIRCUITS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; POWER ELECTRONICS; RADAR;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 33747316336     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2006.879173     Document Type: Article

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