60-GHz LNA using a hybrid transmission line and conductive path to ground technique in silicon

Digest of Papers - IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 685-688

  Alvarado Jr , Javier ^a,b   Kornegay, Kevin T ^a,b   Dawn, Debasis ^b   Pinel, Stephane ^b   Laskar, Joy ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

60 GHz; Low noise amplifier (LNA); Millimeter wave bipolar integrated circuits; Noise figure; Sige; Transmission line; V band; Wideband amplifier

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; CROSSTALK; ELECTRIC LINES; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NOISE ABATEMENT; NOISE FIGURE;

MILLIMETER-WAVE BIPOLAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SIGE BICMOS; TRANSMISSION LINE STRUCTURE;

LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 34748913573     PISSN: 15292517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RFIC.2007.380975     Document Type: Conference Paper

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