A low-power micromixer with high linearity for automotive radar at 77 GHz in silicon-germanium bipolar technology

2007 Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems, SiRF07

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 237-240

  Hartmann, Marcus ^a   Wagner, Christoph ^a,b   Seemann, Kay ^a   Platz, Johannes ^b   Jäger, Herbert ^b   Weigel, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b DICE GmbH & Co KG   (Austria)

Author keywords

77 GHz; Automotive radar; Micromixer; Millimeter wave; SiGe

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING; BIPOLAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; NOISE FIGURE; RADAR SYSTEMS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS;

AUTOMOTIVE RADARS; BIPOLAR TECHNOLOGY; COMPRESSION POINT; MICROMIXERS;

MIXER CIRCUITS;

EID: 34547287558     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SMIC.2007.322828     Document Type: Conference Paper

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