RF CMOS parametric downconverters

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 518-528

  Magierowski, Sebastian ^a   Bousquet, Jean Francois ^a   Zhao, Zhixing ^a   Zourntos, Takis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

MOS varactor; Parametric amplifier; Parametric mixer; RF integrated circuit (RFIC)

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION-MODE VARACTORS; CMOS TECHNOLOGY; COUPLED-MODE THEORY; DOWN-CONVERTERS; ELECTRONICS APPLICATIONS; GENERAL DESCRIPTION; LOW POWER; MILLIMETER-WAVE APPLICATIONS; MOS VARACTOR; NOISE LIMIT; PUMPING FREQUENCY; QUADRATURE RECEIVERS; RF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; RF-CMOS; SUBHARMONICS; TRANSISTOR SCALING;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS; MIXER CIRCUITS; MIXERS (MACHINERY); PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; PUMPS; VARACTORS;

COUPLED CIRCUITS;

EID: 77949539958     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2010.2040332     Document Type: Article

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