A 750 Mb/s, 12 pJ/b, 6-to-10 GHz CMOS IR-UWB transmitter with embedded on-chip antenna

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 394-403

  Kulkarni, Vishal V ^a   Muqsith, Muhammad ^a,b   Niitsu, Kiichi ^a   Ishikuro, Hiroki ^a   Kuroda, Tadahiro ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

CMOS; Impulse radio; On chip antenna; Transmitter; Ultra wideband

Indexed keywords

IMPULSE NOISE; POWER AMPLIFIERS; PULSE CIRCUITS; PULSE GENERATORS; RADIO; RADIO BROADCASTING; SIGNAL GENERATORS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TRANSMITTERS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB); WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CMOS; IMPULSE RADIO; ON-CHIP ANTENNA; TRANSMITTER; ULTRA-WIDEBAND;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 59349115618     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2008.2011034     Document Type: Article

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