A low-noise CMOS distributed amplifier for ultra-wide-band applications

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 126-130

  Moez, Kambiz ^a,b   Elmasry, Mohamed I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; Distributed amplifiers (DAs); Noise; Ultra wide band (UWB)

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS; NOISE FIGURE; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

CMOS DISTRIBUTED AMPLIFIERS; CONVENTIONAL DISTRIBUTED AMPLIFIERS; DISTRIBUTED AMPLIFICATION; DISTRIBUTED AMPLIFIER; NOISE; NOISE CONTRIBUTIONS; NOISE PERFORMANCE; ULTRAWIDEBAND APPLICATIONS;

BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 64849099608     PISSN: 15497747     EISSN: 15583791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2007.910968     Document Type: Article

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