Second-order intermodulation in current-commutating passive FET mixers

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2556-2568

  Chehrazi, Saeed ^a   Mirzaei, Ahmad ^b   Abidi, Asad A ^c  

^a MARVELL SEMICONDUCTOR INC   (United States)

^b BROADCOM CORPORATION   (United States)

^c University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Amplitude modulation (AM) detection; Envelope detection; IIP2; IM2; Passive mixer; Second order nonlinearity

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; CONTROL NONLINEARITIES;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION DETECTIONS; ENVELOPE DETECTION; IIP2; PASSIVE MIXERS; SECOND-ORDER NONLINEARITY;

MIXERS (MACHINERY);

EID: 75749138970     PISSN: 15498328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2009.2016630     Document Type: Article

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