A 60-GHz millimeter-wave CMOS Marchand balun

Digest of Papers - IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 445-448

  Liu, J X ^a   Hsu, C Y ^a   Chuang, H R ^a   Chen, C Y ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b SOUTHERN TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

CMOS; Marchand balun; Millimeter wave; Multilayer coupling; Shielding

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS; MACHINE DESIGN; MICROSTRIP DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; SHIELDING;

MARCHAND BALUN; MICROSTRIP CONDUCTORS; MULTILAYER COUPLING; OUTPUT MATCHING NETWORKS;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 34748861456     PISSN: 15292517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RFIC.2007.380920     Document Type: Conference Paper

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