A 24-GHz CMOS passive subharmonic mixer/downconverter for zero-IF applications

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1247-1256

  Kodkani, Rahul M ^a,b   Larson, Lawrence E ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

24 GHz; CMOS; Direct conversion receiver; Millimeter wave integrated circuits; Passive mixer; Subharmonic mixer (SHM)

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

DIFFERENTIAL PHASE SPLITTERS; MULTIPHASE LOCAL OSCILLATOR; SUBHARMONIC MIXER (SHM);

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 44049098514     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2008.920177     Document Type: Conference Paper

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