Sources of phase error and design considerations for silicon-based monolithic high-pass/low-pass microwave phase shifters

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 4032-4039

  Morton, Matthew A ^a,b   Comeau, Jonathan P ^a,b   Cressler, John D ^a,b   Mitchell, Mark ^c   Papapolymerou, John ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave; Monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) phase shifters; Phase shifters; Phased arrays; Silicon germanium

Indexed keywords

INDUCTOR PARASITICS; LOW-PASS PHASE SHIFTER; PHASE ERROR; SILICON GERMANIUM;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; BICMOS TECHNOLOGY; ERROR ANALYSIS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SILICON COMPOUNDS;

PHASE SHIFTERS;

EID: 33847718738     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2006.886162     Document Type: Article

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