Internal unilaterization technique for CMOS mm-wave amplifiers

Digest of Papers - IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 463-466

  Heydari, Babak ^a   Adabi, Ehsan ^a   Bohsali, Mounir ^a   Afshar, Bagher ^a   Arbabian, Amin ^a   Niknejad, Ali M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cascode amplifiers; CMOS amplifiers; mm wave; Unilaterization

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; GAIN MEASUREMENT; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

CASCODE AMPLIFIERS; SUBSTRATE NETWORKS; UNILATERIZATION;

MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 34748839534     PISSN: 15292517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RFIC.2007.380924     Document Type: Conference Paper

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