A CMOS Ku-band 4x subharmonic mixer

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1351-1359

  Jackson, Brad R ^a,b   Saavedra, Carlos E ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Direct conversion receivers; Frequency multipliers; Microwave mixers; MMICs; RF CMOS; Subharmonic mixers

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; COMPUTER NETWORKS; MIXERS (MACHINERY); MIXING; TECHNOLOGY;

(OTDR) TECHNOLOGY; INPUT SIGNALS; INTERMEDIATE FREQUENCY (IF); KU-BAND; SUB HARMONIC MIXER (SHM);

MIXER CIRCUITS;

EID: 44649139176     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2008.922738     Document Type: Article

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