Single and four-element Ka-band transmit/receive phased-array silicon RFICs with 5-bit amplitude and phase control

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3534-3543

  Kang, Dong Woo ^a   Kim, Jeong Geun ^a,b   Min, Byung Wook ^c,d   Rebeiz, Gabriel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Kwangwoon University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d QUALCOMM INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Phase shifter; Phased array; SiGe BiCMOS; T R module; Variable gain amplifier

Indexed keywords

PHASED ARRAYS; SIGE BICMOS; T/R MODULES; VARIABLE GAIN AMPLIFIER; VARIABLE GAIN AMPLIFIERS;

DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIERS; PHASE SHIFT; PHASE SHIFTERS; SILICON ALLOYS; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

SEMICONDUCTING SILICON;

EID: 73049092589     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2009.2033302     Document Type: Article

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