A novel CMOS low-noise amplifier design for 3.1- to 10.6-GHz ultra-wide-band wireless receivers

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1683-1692

  Lu, Yang ^a   Yeo, Kiat Seng ^a   Cabuk, Alper ^a   Ma, Jianguo ^b   Do, Manh Anh ^a   Lu, Zhenghao ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Common gate; Low noise amplifier (LNA); RFCMOS; Ultra wideband (UWB); Variable gain

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; GAIN CONTROL; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

COMMON GATE; LOW-NOISE AMPLIFIER (LNA); ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB); VARIABLE GAIN;

SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

EID: 33747866689     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2006.879059     Document Type: Article

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