A 77 - 79-GHz Doppler radar transceiver in silicon

Technical Digest - IEEE Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Symposium, CSIC

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 217-220

  Nicolson, Sean T ^a   Chevalier, Pascal ^b   Chantre, Alain ^b   Sautreuil, Bernard ^b   Voinigescu, Sorin P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b STMICROELECTRONICS   (France)

Author keywords

Automotive radar; Doppler radar; Millimeter wave imaging; Millimeter wave transceivers; SiGe BiCMOS.I

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; BICMOS TECHNOLOGY; DOPPLER RADAR; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NONMETALS; OPTICAL DESIGN; RADAR; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SILICON; TRANSCEIVERS;

COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTOR (CS); DIRECT CONVERSION (DICON); DOPPLER; SIGE BICMOS TECHNOLOGY; SINGLE CHIPS;

SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 47349109150     PISSN: 15508781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSICS07.2007.58     Document Type: Conference Paper

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