Novel collector structure enabling low-cost millimeter-wave SiGe:C BiCMOS technology

Digest of Papers - IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 559-562

  John, Jay P ^a   Kirchgessner, Jim ^a   Morgan, Dave ^a   Hildreth, Jill ^a   Dawdy, Morgan ^a   Reuter, Ralf ^a   Hao, Li ^a  

^a FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Bipolar transistors; Heterojunction bipolar transistors; Millimeter wave bipolar integrated circuits; Silicon bipoIar BiCMOS process technology; Silicon Germanium

Indexed keywords

BICMOS TECHNOLOGY; HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

MILLIMETER WAVE BIPOLAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SILICON BIPOIAR/BICMOS PROCESS TECHNOLOGY; SILICON GERMANIUM;

SILICON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 34748907783     PISSN: 15292517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RFIC.2007.380946     Document Type: Conference Paper

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