A scalable 6-to-18 GHz concurrent dual-band quad-beam phased-array receiver in CMOS

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2660-2673

  Jeon, Sanggeun ^a   Wang, Yu Jiu ^b   Wang, Hua ^b   Bohn, Florian ^b   Natarajan, Arun ^c   Babakhani, Aydin ^b   Hajimiri, Ali ^b  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

CMOS; Concurrent; Large scale phased arrays; Multi band; Multi beam; Phased arrays; Scalable; Tritave

Indexed keywords

CMOS; CONCURRENT; LARGE-SCALE PHASED ARRAYS; MULTI-BAND; MULTI-BEAM; PHASED ARRAYS; SCALABLE; TRITAVE;

RADIO RECEIVERS;

EID: 56549120021     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2008.2004863     Document Type: Conference Paper

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