A CMOS active balun using bond wire inductors and a gain boosting technique

IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 676-678

  Lee, Dong Ho ^a,b   Han, Jeonghu ^a,b   Park, Changkun ^a,b   Hong, Songcheol ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Baluns; Body effect; Bonding; CMOSFET circuits; Gain boosting

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; ELECTRIC WIRE; GAIN CONTROL; GATES (TRANSISTOR); RESONATORS;

ACTIVE BALUNS; AMPLITUDE ERRORS; BODY EFFECTS; DIFFERENTIAL CIRCUITS;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 34548294637     PISSN: 15311309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2007.903459     Document Type: Article

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