Design and analysis of a W-band detector in 0.18-μm SiGe BiCMOS

2010 10th Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems, SiRF 2010 - Digest of Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 196-199

  Zheng, Le ^a   Gilreath, Leland ^a,b   Jain, Vipul ^c   Heydari, Payam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^c SaberTek   (United States)

Author keywords

BiCMOS integrated circuits; Dicke switch; Direct detection; Millimeter wave; Passive imaging; Power detector; Radiometers; W band

Indexed keywords

BICMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIRECT-DETECTION; PASSIVE IMAGING; POWER DETECTOR; POWER DETECTORS;

BICMOS TECHNOLOGY; DETECTOR CIRCUITS; DETECTORS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; RADIOFREQUENCY SPECTROSCOPY; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SILICON ALLOYS;

MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 77951048770     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SMIC.2010.5422987     Document Type: Conference Paper

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