An 18 GHz low noise high linearity active mixer in SiGe

Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 3243-3246

  Wang, Yanxin ^a   Duster, Jon S ^a   Kornegay, Kevin T ^a   Park, Hyunmin ^b   Laskar, Joy ^b  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1DB COMPRESSION POINT; ACTIVE MIXERS; CONVERSION GAIN; DC POWER CONSUMPTION; DIRECT DOWN CONVERSION MIXERS; DOUBLE SIDE BANDS; DOUBLE-BALANCED; FIGURE OF MERIT; HIGH LINEARITY; LOW NOISE; MEASURED RESULTS; OUTPUT POWER; SI-BASED; SIGE BICMOS;

BICMOS TECHNOLOGY; MIXING; SEMICONDUCTING GERMANIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SILICON ALLOYS;

MIXERS (MACHINERY);

EID: 33845876506     PISSN: 02714310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2005.1465319     Document Type: Conference Paper

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