A differential 77-GHz receiver with current re-use low-noise amplifier in SiGe technology

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 128-131

  Kissinger, Dietmar ^a   Forstner, Hans Peter ^b   Jäger, Herbert ^c   Maurer, Linus ^c   Weigel, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG   (Germany)

^c DICE GmbH & Co KG   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE RADAR SYSTEM; COMMON EMITTER; DIFFERENTIAL CURRENT; RECEIVER FRONT-ENDS; SIGE TECHNOLOGY; SIGE:C-HBT; SINGLE-ENDED; SINGLE-SIDEBAND NOISE;

AUDIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS; NOISE FIGURE; RADAR SYSTEMS; RADIOFREQUENCY SPECTROSCOPY; SILICON ALLOYS;

MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 77951086661     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SMIC.2010.5422956     Document Type: Conference Paper

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