Design and analysis of low flicker-noise CMOS mixers for direct-conversion receivers

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 4372-4380

  Park, Jinsung ^a,b   Lee, Chang Ho ^a,b   Kim, Byung Sung ^a,c   Laskar, Joy ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

CMOS mixer; Current bleeding; Direct conversion receiver; Flicker noise; Gilbert type mixer

Indexed keywords

CURRENT BLEEDING; DIRECT CONVERSION RECEIVERS; FLICKER NOISE; GILBERT TYPE MIXERS;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIGITAL DEVICES; FLICKERING; LEAKAGE CURRENTS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

MIXER CIRCUITS;

EID: 33847701355     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2006.885582     Document Type: Article

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