An ultra-wideband distributed active mixer MMIC in 0.18-μm CMOS technology

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 625-632

  Wu, Chung Ru ^b   Hsieh, Hsieh Hung ^a,b   Lu, Liang Hung ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Complementary transconductance stages; Conversion gain (CG); Current bleeding technique; Distributed active mixers; Gilbert cells; Nonuniform artificial transmission lines; Ultra wideband operations

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY TRANSCONDUCTANCE STAGES; CONVERSION GAIN (CG); CURRENT BLEEDING TECHNIQUE; DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE MIXERS; GILBERT CELLS; NONUNIFORM ARTIFICIAL TRANSMISSION LINES; ULTRA WIDEBAND OPERATIONS;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC LINES; GAIN CONTROL; MICROWAVE FREQUENCIES; MIXER CIRCUITS; TOPOLOGY;

MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 34147102824     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2007.892799     Document Type: Article

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