A 3-to-5 GHz UWB LNA with a low-power balanced active balun

Digest of Papers - IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 303-306

  Joo, Sanghoon ^a   Choi, Tae Young ^a   Kim, Jae Young ^b   Byunghoo, Jung ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Active balun; Cross coupled pair; Low noise amplifier (LNA); Ultra wideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE BALUN; ACTIVE BALUNS; CROSS-COUPLED; CROSS-COUPLED PAIR; CURRENT REUSE; FULLY INTEGRATED; IEEE 802.15.4A; INPUT MATCHING; LOW POWER; LOW-NOISE AMPLIFIER (LNA); MAXIMUM GAIN; PHASE IMBALANCES; REDUCING POWER; UWB LNA; WIDE-BAND;

AUDIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIERS; DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS; RADIO; RADIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; RADIO WAVES; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 70350230276     PISSN: 15292517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RFIC.2009.5135545     Document Type: Conference Paper

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