Monolithic rf active mixer design

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 231-239

  Fong, Keng Leong ^a   Meyer, Robert G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Analog integrated circuits; Circuit optimization; Mimic's, mmic circuits; Mixers; Nonlinear circuits

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747662939     PISSN: 10577130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/82.754857     Document Type: Article

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