Monolithic integration of a folded dipole antenna with a 24-GHz receiver in SiGe HBT technology

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1467-1474

  Öjefors, Erik ^a,b   Sönmez, Ertugrul ^c   Chartier, Sébastien ^a,d   Lindberg, Peter ^e   Schick, Christoph ^a,f   Rydberg, Anders ^a,b   Schumacher, Hermann ^a,d  

^a IEEE   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c MicroGaN GmbH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^e Laird Technologies AB   (Sweden)

^f Ubidyne GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dipole antennas; Heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs); Monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) receivers

Indexed keywords

FOLDED DIPOLE ANTENNA; MONOLITHIC RECEIVERS; SILICON SUBSTRATES; SPIRAL INDUCTORS;

CROSSTALK; HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SUBSTRATES;

DIPOLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 34547343737     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2007.900315     Document Type: Article

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