A 1.5-9.6 GHz monolithic active quasi-circulator in 0.18 μm CMOS technology

IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 797-799

  Shin, Shih Chieh ^a   Huang, Jhih Yu ^a   Lin, Kun You ^a   Wang, Huei ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Active circulator; CMOS; Microwave monolithic integrated circuit (MMIC); Quasi circulator

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MICROWAVE CIRCUITS; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

ACTIVE CIRCULATOR; CMOS; CMOS TECHNOLOGIES; MICROWAVE MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (MMIC); QUASI-CIRCULATOR;

MICROWAVE CIRCULATORS;

EID: 57349165774     PISSN: 15311309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2008.2007703     Document Type: Article

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