High-performance W-band SiGe RFICs for passive millimeter-wave imaging

Digest of Papers - IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 437-440

  May, Jason W ^a   Rebeiz, Gabriel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Millimeter wave detectors; Millimeter wave imaging; Millimeter wave integrated circuits; Millimeter waves; Passive imaging; Radiometer

Indexed keywords

BI-CMOS PROCESS; INTEGRATION TIME; LOW LOSS; MILLIMETER WAVE DETECTORS; MILLIMETER WAVE IMAGING; MILLIMETER WAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MM-WAVE; PASSIVE IMAGING; PASSIVE MILLIMETER WAVE IMAGING; PEAK RESPONSIVITY; SIGE LNA; SQUARE LAW DETECTORS; TEMPERATURE RESOLUTION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

AUDIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; DETECTORS; DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; RADIO; RADIO WAVES; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; SEMICONDUCTING GERMANIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SILICON ALLOYS;

MILLIMETER WAVES;

EID: 70350238374     PISSN: 15292517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RFIC.2009.5135575     Document Type: Conference Paper

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