A 2-GHz low-power down-conversion mixer in 0.18-μm CMOS technology

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E91-C, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 64-71

  Chen, Jun Da ^a   Lin, Zhi Ming ^a   Row, Jeen Sheen ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHANGHUA UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

CMOS mixers double side band (DSB) noise figure; Gilbert cell mixers

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; MIXERS (MACHINERY); NOISE FIGURE;

CMOS TECHNOLOGY; DC POWER CONSUMPTION; DOUBLE SIDE BANDS; GILBERT CELL MIXERS; INPUT THIRD-ORDER INTERCEPT POINTS; LOW SUPPLY VOLTAGES; POWER CONVERSION; SUPPLY VOLTAGES;

MIXER CIRCUITS;

EID: 57349130138     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: 17451353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietele/e91-c.1.64     Document Type: Article

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