A low supply voltage SiGe LNA for ultra-wideband frontends

IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 469-471

  Barras, David ^a   Ellinger, Frank ^a   Jäckel, Heinz ^a   Hirt, Walter ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bipolar CMOS (BiCMOS); Low noise amplifier (LNA); Microwave monolithic integrated circuit (MMIC); SiGe; Ultra wideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FEEDBACK; HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTIMIZATION; SILICON COMPOUNDS;

IEEE; LOW SUPPLY VOLTAGES; LOW-NOISE AMPLIFIERS (LNA); ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

BROADBAND NETWORKS;

EID: 6344291792     PISSN: 15311309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2004.834556     Document Type: Article

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