15-60 GHz asymmetric broadside coupled balun in 0.18 μm CMOS technology

Electronics Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 1028-1030

  Chiou, H K ^a   Yang, T Y ^a   Hsu, Y C ^a   Lin, S G ^b   Juang, Y Z ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL APPLIED RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; FABRICATION; MULTILAYERS; PHASE MEASUREMENT;

COUPLED BALUN FABRICATION; MULTILAYER STRUCTURES; PHASE DIFFERENCE; TIGHT COUPLING TECHNIQUES;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 34548657444     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20071200     Document Type: Article

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