Subharmonically pumped RF CMOS paramps

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 601-608

  Magierowski, Sebastian ^a   Chan, Howard ^a   Zourntos, Takis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

MOS varactors; Parametric amplifiers

Indexed keywords

DIODES; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; VARACTORS;

DIODE-BASED DESIGN; MOS VARACTOR;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 39749176599     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2007.912381     Document Type: Article

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