Fully balanced 60 GHz LNA with 37 % bandwidth, 3.8 dB NF, 10 dB gain and constant group delay over 6 GHz bandwidth

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 124-127

  Janssen, Erwin ^a   Mahmoudi, Reza ^a   Van Der Heijden, Edwin ^b   Sakian, Pooyan ^a   De Graauw, Anton ^b   Pijper, Ralf ^b   Van Roermund, Arthur ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b NXP TSMC Research Centre   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

60 GHz; Broadband amplifiers; CMOS analog integrated circuits; LNA; Millimeter wave amplifiers; Transformers

Indexed keywords

65NM TECHNOLOGY; BULK CMOS; CMOS ANALOG INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CONSTANT DELAYS; CONSTANT GROUP DELAY; FLAT-GAIN; FULLY INTEGRATED; MILLER CAPACITANCE; MILLIMETER WAVE AMPLIFIERS; TRANSDUCER GAIN; TWO STAGE; VOLTAGE FEEDBACK;

ANALOG CIRCUITS; AUDIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; BANDWIDTH; BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; GROUP DELAY; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LINEAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; RADIOFREQUENCY SPECTROSCOPY;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 77951067097     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SMIC.2010.5422843     Document Type: Conference Paper

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