A resistively degenerated wideband passive mixer with low noise figure and high IIP2

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 820-830

  Kim, Namsoo ^a   Aparin, Vladimir ^b   Larson, Lawrence E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b QUALCOMM INC   (United States)

Author keywords

CMOS; Code division multiple access (CDMA); Degenration; Linearity; Noise figure (NF); Passive mixer; Volterra series analysis

Indexed keywords

BACK GATES; BOOSTING METHOD; CMOS; CMOS MIXER; CROSS-COUPLINGS; CURRENT REUSE; DOUBLE-SIDEBAND; LOW NOISE FIGURE; NOISE PERFORMANCE; OPERATING FREQUENCY; OUTPUT IMPEDANCE; PASSIVE MIXERS; SI CMOS; VOLTAGE GAIN; VOLTERRA SERIES ANALYSIS; WIDE FREQUENCY RANGE; WIDE-BAND;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; LINEARIZATION; MIXER CIRCUITS; MIXING; NOISE FIGURE;

MIXERS (MACHINERY);

EID: 77951207819     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2010.2042644     Document Type: Article

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