Toward a sub-decibel noise figure broadband monolithic LNA in silicon

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2389-2398

  Goel, Ankush ^a   Hashemi, Hossein ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Broadband; Low noise amplifier (LNA); SiGe

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); BANDWIDTH; BICMOS TECHNOLOGY; BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS; NOISE FIGURE; PROCESS ENGINEERING; SEMICONDUCTING GERMANIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SILICON; SILICON ALLOYS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ACTIVE FEEDBACKS; BROADBAND; CHIP AREAS; COMMON EMITTERS; DESIGN TRADEOFFS; DEVICE SIZES; HIGH FREQUENCIES; LOW-NOISE AMPLIFIER (LNA); SIGE; SIGE BICMOS; SUBMINIATURE A CONNECTORS;

AUDIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 55849134810     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2008.2005867     Document Type: Article

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