A double-balanced CMOS mixer with on-chip balun for 60-GHz receivers

Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International NEWCAS Conference, NEWCAS2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 321-324

  Nouri, Neda ^a   Nezhad Ahamdi, Mohammad Reza ^b   Mirabbasi, Shahriar ^a   Safavi Naeini, Safieddin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Balun; CMOS; Millimeter wave (mm Wave) integrated circuits; Mixer; Phased array; V band

Indexed keywords

BALUN; CMOS; MILLIMETER-WAVE (MM-WAVE); MIXER; PHASED ARRAYS; V-BAND;

FREQUENCY BANDS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; MIXER CIRCUITS; MIXERS (MACHINERY); MIXING; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 78349295001     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NEWCAS.2010.5604029     Document Type: Conference Paper

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