A 100 GHz transformer-coupled fully differential amplifier in 90 nm CMOS

Digest of Papers - IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 359-362

  Deferm, Noël ^a   Reynaert, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

CMOS; Differential design; Integrated transformer; Mm wave; MOS neutralization; W band

Indexed keywords

100 GHZ; 90NM CMOS; CMOS AMPLIFIERS; DIFFERENTIAL DESIGNS; DIFFERENTIAL PAIRS; FULLY DIFFERENTIAL; FULLY DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIERS; GAIN IMPROVEMENT; INTEGRATED TRANSFORMERS; MATCHING CIRCUIT; MM-WAVE; WIDE-BAND;

DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIERS; DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MILLIMETER WAVES; RADIO; RADIO WAVES;

DESIGN;

EID: 77954463375     PISSN: 15292517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RFIC.2010.5477257     Document Type: Conference Paper

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