High speeds in a single chip

IEEE Microwave Magazine

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 28-33

  Kasper, Erich ^a   Kissinger, Dietmar ^b   Russer, Peter ^c   Weigel, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT OSCILLATIONS; ENERGY GAP; LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS; MILLIMETER WAVES; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OSCILLISTORS; SILICON; TUNGSTEN ALLOYS;

EPITAXIALLY GROWN; LINEAR AMPLIFIERS; MAXIMUM OSCILLATION FREQUENCY; MILLIMETER WAVE CIRCUITS; MILLIMETER-WAVE RANGE; OPERATING FREQUENCY; PHASE NOISE PERFORMANCE; SIGE BIPOLAR TECHNOLOGY;

SI-GE ALLOYS;

EID: 70450253179     PISSN: 15273342     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MMM.2009.934691     Document Type: Article

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