Noise in current-commutating passive FET mixers

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 332-344

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

^a MARVELL SEMICONDUCTOR INC   (United States)

^b BROADCOM CORPORATION   (United States)

^c Engineering IV   (United States)

Author keywords

Flicker noise; Passive mixer; Physical mechanism; White noise; Zero IF.

Indexed keywords

WHITE NOISE;

FLICKER NOISE; FREQUENCY TRANSLATION; PASSIVE MIXERS; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; PHYSICAL MODEL; RECEIVER SENSITIVITY; ZERO IF; ZERO-IF RECEIVERS;

MIXERS (MACHINERY);

EID: 76849111226     PISSN: 15498328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2009.2023762     Document Type: Article

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