A 0.1-23-GHz SiGe BiCMOS analog multiplier and mixer based on attenuation-compensation technique

IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium, RFIC, Digest of Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 417-420

  Tsai, Ming Da ^a   Lin, Chin Shen ^a   Wang, Chi Hsueh ^a   Lien, Chun Hsien ^a   Wang, Huei ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Broadband communication; Heterojunction bipolar transistors; Mixers; Monolithic microwave integrated circuits; Silicon

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND COMMUNICATION; EMITTER COUPLE PAIRS (ECP); GAIN-BANDWIDTH PRODUCT (GBP); MIXERS;

BANDWIDTH; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; FREQUENCIES; HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRANSCONDUCTANCE;

MIXER CIRCUITS;

EID: 4444233855     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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