A RF CMOS amplifier with optimized gain, noise, linearity and return losses for UWB applications

Digest of Papers - IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 505-508

  Nguyen, Giang D ^a   Cimino, Kurt ^a   Feng, Milton ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

CMOS; Low noise amplifier (LNA); Noise matching; Smith chart; Ultra wideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); BROADBAND NETWORKS; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; RADIO WAVES; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CMOS; INPUT RETURN LOSSES; LOW NOISE AMPLIFIER (LNA); NOISE FIGURE (NF); NOISE MATCHING; RADIO FREQUENCY INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; RETURN LOSSES; RF-CMOS; SMITH CHART; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB); UWB APPLICATIONS;

INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 51849097358     PISSN: 15292517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RFIC.2008.4561487     Document Type: Conference Paper

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