A 25 GHz CMOS phased array receiver front-end based on subsector beam steering technique

Proceedings of Technical Papers - 2009 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, A-SSCC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 261-264

  Chin, Ting Yuen ^a   Chang, Sheng Fuh ^a   Chang, Chia Chan ^a   Wu, Jen Chieh ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Beam steering; Beamforming; Butler matrix; Phase inverter; Phased array

Indexed keywords

ARRAY ANTENNAS; ARRAY FACTORS; BEAM STEERING; BUTLER MATRICES; CIRCUIT COMPLEXITY; CMOS TECHNOLOGY; INCIDENT ANGLES; MULTIPHASE VOLTAGE; PHASED ARRAY RECEIVER; PHASED ARRAYS; POWER CONSUMPTION; POWER GAINS; RECEIVED SIGNALS; SMALL AREA; SUBSECTORS; VARIABLE PHASE SHIFTERS; VECTOR DISTRIBUTION; WEIGHTED VECTOR;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; BEAMFORMING; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MICROWAVE CIRCUITS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); RADIO RECEIVERS;

BUTLER MATRIX;

EID: 76249117925     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASSCC.2009.5357263     Document Type: Conference Paper

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