Comparison of 24GHz receiver front-ends using active and passive mixers in CMOS

IET Circuits, Devices and Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 340-349

  Issakov, V ^a   Siprak D ^b   Tiebout, M ^c   Thiede, A ^a   Simburger W ^b   Maurer, L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

^b INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG   (Germany)

^c INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRIA AG   (Austria)

^d DICE GmbH & Co KG   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MIXERS; DIGITAL CMOS; DOWNCONVERSION; FLICKER NOISE; INTEGRATED RECEIVERS; KEY PARAMETERS; PASSIVE MIXERS; POWER DEPENDENCE; RADAR APPLICATIONS; RECEIVER FRONT-ENDS; SYSTEM CHARACTERISTICS; TEMPERATURE RANGE; TEMPERATURE STABILITY;

AUDIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS; MIXING;

MIXERS (MACHINERY);

EID: 70749085230     PISSN: 1751858X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-cds.2009.0134     Document Type: Article

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