A 91 GHz receiver front-end in silicon-germanium technology

Digest of Papers - IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 237-240

  Kim, Jihwan ^a   Alvarado Jr , Javier ^a,b   Komegay, Kevin T ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Balun; Front end design; Low noise amplifier (LNA); Millimeter wave; Mixer; Receiver; SiGe; W band

Indexed keywords

AUDIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; GERMANIUM; MIXING; NONMETALS; OPTICAL DESIGN; RADIO WAVES; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON;

BALUN; BAND RECEIVER; DOUBLE-BALANCED MIXER; FRONT-END DESIGN; LOW-NOISE AMPLIFIER (LNA); LOW-NOISE-AMPLIFIER; MARCHAND BALUN; MILLIMETER-WAVE; MIXER; RADIO FREQUENCY INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; RECEIVER; RECEIVER FRONT ENDS; SIGE; SILICON-GERMANIUM TECHNOLOGY; W-BAND;

INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 51849099543     PISSN: 15292517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RFIC.2008.4561426     Document Type: Conference Paper

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