An integrated 50-GHz SiGe sub-harmonic mixer/downconverter with a quadrature ring VCO

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 223-226

  Kodkani, R M ^a   Larson, L E ^a  

^a University of California at San Diego   (United States)

Author keywords

Bipolar; Millimeter wave integrated circuits; Quadrature ring oscillator; SiGe; Sub harmonic mixer; Voltage controlled oscillator

Indexed keywords

BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; GAIN MEASUREMENT; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

MILLIMETER WAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; QUADRATURE RING OSCILLATORS; SUB-HARMONIC MIXERS;

MIXER CIRCUITS;

EID: 34547302208     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SMIC.2007.322825     Document Type: Conference Paper

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