A 25 GHz 3.3 dB NF low noise amplifier based upon slow wave transmission lines and the 0.18 μm CMOS technology

Digest of Papers - IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 373-376

  Sayag, A ^a   Levin, S ^b   Regev, D ^b   Zfira, D ^b   Shapira, S ^b   Goren, D ^c   Ritter, D ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b Tower Semiconductors Inc ^*  (Israel)

^c IBM HAIFA RESEARCH LAB   (Israel)

Author keywords

CMOS; K band; Low noise amplifier (LNA); RLCG; Slow wave transmission line

Indexed keywords

AUDIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; BANDPASS FILTERS; DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS; POWER TRANSMISSION; RADIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; RADIO WAVES; STANDARDS; TECHNOLOGY; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY; TRANSMISSIONS; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

CMOS; CMOS TECHNOLOGIES; COMPACT MODELING; DIGITAL CMOS TECHNOLOGY; IN-BAND; K-BAND; LOW NOISE AMPLIFIER (LNA); MATCHING NETWORKS; MINIMUM NOISE FIGURE; PEAK GAIN; POWER CONSUMPTION; RADIO FREQUENCY INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; RLCG; SLOW WAVE TRANSMISSION LINE; SLOW WAVES; TRANSMISSION LINE; TRANSMISSION LINES;

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 51849083480     PISSN: 15292517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RFIC.2008.4561457     Document Type: Conference Paper

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