A fully integrated fully differential low-noise amplifier for short range automotive radar using a SiGe:C BiCMOS technology

European Microwave Week 2007 Conference Proceedings, EuMW 2007 - 2nd European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference, EuMIC 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 407-410

  Chartier, Sébastien ^a   Schleicher, Bernd ^a   Korndörfer, Falk ^b   Glisic, Srdjan ^b   Fischer, Gerhard ^b   Schumacher, Hermann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b IHP   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); AUDIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MICROSTRIP LINES; MICROWAVE CIRCUITS; MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MICROWAVES; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); RADAR; SEMICONDUCTING GERMANIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SILICON ALLOYS; TECHNOLOGY;

AUTOMOTIVE RADARS; COMPACT DESIGNS; EUROPEAN; FULLY DIFFERENTIAL; FULLY INTEGRATED; LOW-NOISE AMPLIFIERS; SHORT RANGE RADAR; SIGE:C-BICMOS TECHNOLOGY; THIN-FILM MICROSTRIP LINES;

BICMOS TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 48149098392     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMICC.2007.4412735     Document Type: Conference Paper

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