A low-power low-noise single-chip receiver front-end for automotive radar at 77 GHz in silicon-germanium bipolar technology

Digest of Papers - IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 149-152

  Hartmann, Marcus ^a   Wagner, Christoph ^b   Seemann, Kay ^a   Platz, Johannes ^c   Jäger, Herbert ^c   Weigel, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^c DICE GmbH & Co KG   (Austria)

Author keywords

77GHz; Automotive radar; Front end design; LNA; Millimeter wave; Mixer; SiGe

Indexed keywords

GERMANIUM; HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; MILLIMETER WAVES; MIXER CIRCUITS; PHASE NOISE; RADAR SYSTEMS; SILICON;

AUTOMOTIVE RADAR; BOND PADS; LINEARITY MESUREMENTS; SIDEBAND NOISE;

SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

EID: 34748892944     PISSN: 15292517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RFIC.2007.380853     Document Type: Conference Paper

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