A 25-GHz compact low-power phased-array receiver with continuous beam steering in CMOS technology

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2273-2282

  Chin, Ting Yueh ^a   Chang, Sheng Fuh ^a   Wu, Jen Chieh ^a   Chang, Chia Chan ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

beam steering; Beamforming; Butler matrix; phased array; spatially orthogonal

Indexed keywords

ARRAY ANTENNAS; BEAM-STEERING; CIRCUIT COMPLEXITY; CMOS TECHNOLOGY; CONTINUOUS BEAMS; LOW POWER; MATRIX; PHASE VOLTAGE; PHASED ARRAY RECEIVER; PHASED ARRAYS; POWER CONSUMPTION; PROPOSED ARCHITECTURES; RECEIVED SIGNALS; SMALL CHIP AREA; SPATIALLY ORTHOGONAL; SUBSECTORS; VARIABLE PHASE SHIFTERS;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; BEAMFORMING; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); RADIO RECEIVERS;

BUTLER MATRIX;

EID: 77958544101     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2010.2064010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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