Progress toward a low-cost millimeter-wave silicon radio

Proceedings of the Custom Integrated Circuits Conference

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 563-570

  Reynolds, S K ^a   Floyd, B A ^a   Pfeiffer, U R ^a   Beukema, T J ^a   Zwick, T ^a   Grzyb, J ^a   Liu, D ^a   Gaucher, B P ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONICS PACKAGING; MILLIMETER WAVES; POWER AMPLIFIERS; SILICON; TRANSCEIVERS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

MILLIMETER-WAVE FREQUENCIES; SUPERHETERODYNE RECEIVERS; VIVALDI ANTENNAS;

RADIO SYSTEMS;

EID: 33847142322     PISSN: 08865930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CICC.2005.1568731     Document Type: Conference Paper

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