Low-power short-range radio CMOS subharmonic RF front-end using CG-CS LNA

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 658-662

  Teo, T Hui ^a   Yeoh, Wooi Gan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

Author keywords

CMOS; Low noise amplifier (LNA); Short range radio; Subharmonic mixer

Indexed keywords

BUFFER AMPLIFIERS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MIXERS (MACHINERY); NOISE FIGURE;

BIOMEDICAL DEVICES; COMMON GATE COMMON SOURCES; FULLY INTEGRATED; INTERMEDIATE FREQUENCIES; LOW COST APPLICATIONS; SHORT-RANGE RADIO; SOURCE DEGENERATION; SUB-HARMONIC MIXER;

LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 48849089495     PISSN: 15497747     EISSN: 15583791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2008.921578     Document Type: Article

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