A 6.5-kV ESD protected 3-5-GHz ultra-wideband BiCMOS low noise amplifier using interstage gain roll-off compensation

ICU 2005: 2005 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband, Conference Proceedings

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 525-529

  Liu, Mingxu ^a,b   Craninckx, Jan ^a   Iyer, Natarajan Mahadeva ^a   Kuijk, Maarten ^b   Barel, Alain ^b  

^a IMEC   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Amplifier noise; Bipolar transistor amplifiers; Broadband amplifiers; ESD protection; Microwave amplifiers; Microwave bipolar transistor amplifiers

Indexed keywords

GAIN CONTROL; MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

AMPLIFIER NOISE; BIPOLAR TRANSISTOR AMPLIFIERS; CHIP-ON-BOARD; ESD PROTECTION; LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS; NOISE FIGURE (NF);

BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 33846214416     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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