A 9-31-GHz subharmonic passive mixer in 90-nm CMOS technology

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2257-2263

  Bao, Mingquan ^b   Jacobsson, Harald ^a,b   Aspemyr, Lars ^a,b   Carchon, Geert ^c   Sun, Xiao ^c  

^a IEEE

^b Ericsson Microwave Systems AB   (Sweden)

^c IMEC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

90 nm CMOS; MMIC; Passive mixer; Subharmonic mixer; Wideband

Indexed keywords

90-NM CMOS; PASSIVE MIXERS; SUBHARMONIC MIXERS; WIDEBAND;

BROADBAND NETWORKS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

MIXER CIRCUITS;

EID: 33749513432     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2006.881551     Document Type: Conference Paper

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