Will BiCMOS stay competitive for mmW applications?

Proceedings of the Custom Integrated Circuits Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 387-394

  Garcia, Patrice ^a   Chantre, Alain ^a   Pravost, Sébastien ^a   Chevalier, Pascal ^a   Nicolson, Sean T ^b   Roy, David ^a   Voinigescu, Sorin P ^b   Garnier, Christophe ^a  

^a STMICROELECTRONICS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BICMOS TECHNOLOGY; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); SEMICONDUCTING GERMANIUM COMPOUNDS; SILICON ALLOYS;

BI-CMOS; CIRCUIT OPTIMIZATIONS; HIGH SPEEDS; INTRINSIC TRANSISTORS; SIGE BICMOS; STATE OF THE ARTS;

SEMICONDUCTING SILICON;

EID: 57849135666     PISSN: 08865930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CICC.2008.4672102     Document Type: Conference Paper

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