A wideband W-band receiver front-end in 65-nm CMOS

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1717-1730

  Khanpour, Mehdi ^a   Tang, Keith W ^a   Garcia, Patrice ^b   Voinigescu, Sorin P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b STMICROELECTRONICS   (France)

Author keywords

Gilbert cell mixer; Low noise amplifiers (LNAs); Millimeter wave imaging; Nanoscale CMOS; Noise in circuits with feedback; W band

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS; MIXING;

BAND RECEIVER; CASCODE; CMOS TECHNOLOGIES; DOWN-CONVERSION; EXPERIMENTAL COMPARISON; FEEDBACK-LNA; GILBERT-CELL MIXER; GILBERT-CELL MIXERS; INPUT RETURN LOSSES; LOW-NOISE AMPLIFIERS (LNAS); LOW-NOISE-AMPLIFIER; LOWER NOISE; MILLIMETER-WAVE IMAGING; NANOSCALE CMOS; NOISE IN CIRCUITS WITH FEEDBACK; RECEIVER FRONT ENDS; W-BAND; WIDE BANDS;

AUDIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 48849106471     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2008.926738     Document Type: Conference Paper

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