A 0.18-μm CMOS balanced amplifier for 24-GHz applications

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 440-445

  Jin, Jun De ^b   Hsu, Shawn S H ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Balanced amplifier; CMOS; Lumped element coupler; Narrowband amplifier; Parallel resonance

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; POWER AMPLIFIERS;

BALANCED AMPLIFIER; LUMPED ELEMENT COUPLER; NARROWBAND AMPLIFIER;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 38849134794     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2007.914292     Document Type: Conference Paper

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