Implications of passive mixer transparency for impedance matching and noise figure in passive mixer-first receivers

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3092-3103

  Andrews, Caroline ^a   Molnar, Alyosha C ^a  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

Impedance matching; noise figure; passive mixer first receiver; RF CMOS receiver

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIERS; FEEDBACK; FEEDBACK AMPLIFIERS; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); MIXERS (MACHINERY); NOISE FIGURE; TRANSPARENCY;

HARMONIC REJECTION MIXER; HIGHER HARMONICS; LOW NOISE FIGURE; NOISE PERFORMANCE; PASSIVE MIXERS; RESISTIVE FEEDBACK; RF-CMOS; TRANSPARENCY PROPERTIES;

LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 78650307258     PISSN: 15498328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2010.2052513     Document Type: Article

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