A 94-GHz passive imaging receiver using a balanced LNA with embedded Dicke switch

Digest of Papers - IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 79-82

  Gilreath, Leland ^a   Jain, Vipul ^b   Yao, Hsin Cheng ^a   Zheng, Le ^a   Heydari, Payam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SaberTek   (United States)

Author keywords

BiCMOS; Low noise amplifiers; Millimeter wave; Passive imaging; Power detectors; SiGe; W band

Indexed keywords

BASE-BAND CIRCUITRY; BI-CMOS; DIRECT-DETECTION; IMAGER CHIPS; ON CHIPS; PASSIVE IMAGING; POWER DETECTORS; RESPONSIVITY; SIGE BICMOS TECHNOLOGY; SILICON-BASED; TEMPERATURE RESOLUTION;

BICMOS TECHNOLOGY; DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; RADIO; RADIO WAVES; SILICON ALLOYS;

SEMICONDUCTING SILICON;

EID: 77954483651     PISSN: 15292517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RFIC.2010.5477289     Document Type: Conference Paper

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