Millimeter-wave devices and circuit blocks up to 104 GHz in 90 NM CMOS

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2893-2903

  Heydari, Babak ^a   Bohsali, Mounir ^a   Adabi, Ehsan ^a   Niknejad, Ali M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

100 GHz amplifier; 100 GHz oscillator; CMOS millimeter wave integrated circuits; Fmax; High speed integrated circuits; Maximum stable gain; Millimeter wave amplifiers; Millimeter wave device modeling; Transmission lines

Indexed keywords

100 GHZ; CMOS MILLIMETER WAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; FMAX; HIGH-SPEED INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MAXIMUM STABLE GAIN; MILLIMETER WAVE AMPLIFIERS; TRANSMISSION LINES;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC LINES; EQUIPMENT; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MILLIMETER WAVES; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES;

EID: 51849086537     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2007.908743     Document Type: Conference Paper

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