Multilayer design techniques for extremely miniaturized CMOS microwave and millimeter-wave distributed passive circuits

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 4218-4224

  Chirala, Mohan K ^a,b   Nguyen, Cam ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

CMOS radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs); Couplers; Hairpin resonator; Lange coupler; Microwave and millimeter wave circuits; Multilayer circuits; Resonators; Ring hybrid; Slow wave structures

Indexed keywords

CMOS RADIO-FREQUENCY INTEGRATED CIRCUITS (RFIC); HAIRPIN RESONATORS; LANGE COUPLERS; MULTILAYER CIRCUITS; RING HYBRID; SLOW WAVE STRUCTURES;

ELECTRIC CONNECTORS; MICROWAVE CIRCUITS; PASSIVE NETWORKS; RESONATORS;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 33847726310     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2006.885567     Document Type: Article

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