Low-loss and broadband asymmetric broadside-coupled balun for mixer design in 0.18-μm CMOS Technology

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 835-848

  Chiou, Hwann Kaeo ^a,b   Yang, Tsung Yu ^b  

^a IEEE

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Asymmetric broadside coupled; Balun; CMOS; Millimeter wave; Mixer; Silicon monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC)

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MULTILAYERS;

ASYMMETRIC BROADSIDE COUPLED BALUN; BALUN; CONVERSION LOSS; SILICON MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

MIXER CIRCUITS;

EID: 41949119126     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2008.919053     Document Type: Article

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