Distortion in current commutating passive CMOS downconversion mixers

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2671-2681

  Khatri, Himanshu ^a   Gudem, Prasad S ^b   Larson, Lawrence E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b QUALCOMM INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Analog integrated circuits (ICs); CMOS passive mixer; Current commutating mixer; Intermodulation distortion; Passive mixer nonlinearity; Volterra series analysis

Indexed keywords

ANALOG INTEGRATED CIRCUIT; CURRENT COMMUTATING MIXER; NON-LINEARITY; PASSIVE MIXERS; VOLTERRA SERIES ANALYSIS;

ANALOG CIRCUITS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DISTORTION (WAVES); ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INTERMODULATION DISTORTION; INTERMODULATION MEASUREMENT; LINEAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LINEARIZATION; MIXER CIRCUITS; MIXING;

MIXERS (MACHINERY);

EID: 70450253068     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2009.2031930     Document Type: Article

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