A 90-nm CMOS broadband and miniature Q-band balanced medium power amplifier

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1129-1132

  Tsai, Jeng Han ^a   Lee, Yi Lin ^a   Huang, Tian Wei ^a   Yu, Cheng Ming ^b   Chern, John G J ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Balanced amplifier; Broad side coupler; CMOS; Millimeter wave (MMW); Q band; Thin film microstrip (TFMS)

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; MILLIMETER WAVES; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; THIN FILMS;

BALANCED AMPLIFIERS; BROAD-SIDE COUPLERS; SATURATION OUTPUT POWER; THIN-FILM MICROSTRIP (TFMS);

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 34748902327     PISSN: 0149645X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MWSYM.2007.380328     Document Type: Conference Paper

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