Analysis and design of a CMOS UWB LNA with dual-RLC-branch wideband input matching network

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 287-296

  Lin, Yo Sheng ^a   Chen, Chang Zhi ^a   Yang, Hong Yu ^a,b   Chen, Chi Chen ^a   Lee, Jen How ^a   Huang, Guo Wei ^c   Lu, Shey Shi ^d  

^a NATIONAL CHI NAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b VIA Technologies Inc   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL NANO DEVICE LABORATORIES   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

CMOS; Inductive peaking; LC load; Low noise amplifier (LNA); Quality factor ( factor); Resistive feedback; Ultrawideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS AND DESIGN; BANDWIDTH EXTENSION; CASCADE CONFIGURATION; GHZ BAND; GROUP DELAYS; IMPEDANCE MATCHINGS; INDUCTIVE PEAKING; INPUT MATCHING; INPUT MATCHING NETWORKS; LOW-NOISE AMPLIFIER (LNA); MEASURED RESULTS; NETWORK EQUIVALENT; PHASE LINEARITY; QUALITY FACTORS; RESISTIVE FEEDBACK; SECOND ORDERS; SHUNT-PEAKING; SHUNT-SHUNT FEEDBACK; UWB LNA; WIDE-BAND; WIDEBAND BANDPASS FILTER; WIDEBAND LOW-NOISE AMPLIFIER;

AUDIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; BANDPASS FILTERS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; GROUP DELAY; LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 76849116760     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2009.2037863     Document Type: Article

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