A 220GHz subharmonic receiver front end in a SiGe HBT technology

Digest of Papers - IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Öjefors, Erik ^a   Heinemann, Bernd ^b   Pfeiffer, Ullrich R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^b IHP   (Germany)

Author keywords

heterojunction bipolar transistors; Millimeter wave receivers; MMIC frequency converters; silicon

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION GAIN; DIFFERENTIAL LNA; DOWN CONVERTERS; MILLIMETER WAVE RECEIVERS; MMIC FREQUENCY CONVERTERS; RECEIVER FRONT-ENDS; SIGE TECHNOLOGY; SIGE-HBT TECHNOLOGY; SUB-HARMONIC MIXER; SUBHARMONICS;

BANDWIDTH; DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; INTEGRATION; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; RADIO; RADIO WAVES; SILICON ALLOYS;

HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS;

EID: 79960754237     PISSN: 15292517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RFIC.2011.5940604     Document Type: Conference Paper

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