A fully differential low-power high-linearity 77-GHz SiGe receiver frontend for automotive radar systems

2009 IEEE 10th Annual Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference, WAMICON 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Kissinger, Dietmar ^a   Sewiolo, Benjamin ^a   Forstner, Hans Peter ^b   Maurer, Linus ^c   Weigel, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG   (Germany)

^c DICE GmbH & Co KG   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE RADAR SYSTEM; BOND PAD; CHIP AREAS; COMPRESSION POINTS; CONVERSION GAIN; DOWNCONVERSION MIXER; FULLY DIFFERENTIAL; LINEARITY MEASUREMENTS; LOW POWER; RECEIVER FRONT-ENDS; SIGE:C-HBT; SINGLE-CHIP RECEIVERS; SINGLE-ENDED; SINGLE-SIDEBAND NOISE;

AUDIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; LINEARIZATION; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVES; SEMICONDUCTING GERMANIUM COMPOUNDS; SILICON ALLOYS;

RADAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 70449393556     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WAMICON.2009.5207253     Document Type: Conference Paper

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