Design of a CMOS tapered cascaded multistage distributed amplifier

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 938-947

  Arbabian, Amin ^a   Niknejad, Ali M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Broadband amplifiers; Cascaded multistage distributed amplifier (DA); CMOS DA; CMOS millimeter wave integrated circuits; Elevated coplanar waveguides (E CPWs); Millimeter wave amplifiers; Tapering; Transmission lines

Indexed keywords

CASCADED MULTISTAGE DISTRIBUTED AMPLIFIER (DA); CMOS DA; CMOS MILLIMETER-WAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELEVATED COPLANAR WAVEGUIDES (E-CPWS); MILLIMETER-WAVE AMPLIFIERS; TAPERING; TRANSMISSION LINES;

ASPECT RATIO; BANDPASS FILTERS; BRAIN; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COPLANAR WAVEGUIDES; ELECTRIC LINES; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MILLIMETER WAVES; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; POWER TRANSMISSION; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 64749102227     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2009.2014433     Document Type: Conference Paper

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