A dc-11.5 GHz low-power, wideband amplifier using splitting-load inductive peaking technique

IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 482-484

  Chao, Shih Fong ^b   Kuo, Jhe Jia ^b   Lin, Chong Liang ^b   Tsai, Ming Da ^b   Wang, Huei ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

CMOS; Low noise amplifier (LNA); Radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC); Submicron; Ultra wideband (UWB); Wideband

Indexed keywords

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

(T ,S)-SPLITTING; AMPLIFIER DESIGNS; CHIP SIZES; CMOS TECHNOLOGIES; GAIN FLATNESS; INDUCTIVE PEAKING; INPUT THIRD ORDER INTERCEPT POINT (IIP3); LOW POWERS; OPERATING BANDWIDTHS; POWER CONSUMPTION (CE); RETURN LOSS (RL); SHUNT FEEDBACK; WIDE BAND AMPLIFIERS;

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 46749124725     PISSN: 15311309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2008.925099     Document Type: Article

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