A 65 nm CMOS 4-element sub-34 mW/element 60 GHz phased-array transceiver

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3018-3032

  Tabesh, Maryam ^a   Chen, Jiashu ^a   Marcu, Cristian ^b   Kong, Lingkai ^a   Kang, Shinwon ^a   Niknejad, Ali M ^a   Alon, Elad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Qualcomm Atheros   (United States)

Author keywords

60 GHz transceiver; Baseband phase shifting; beam steering; CMOS; energy efficient array; low noise amplifier (LNA); low power; millimeter wave integrated circuits; phase locked loop (PLL); phased array; power amplifier (PA)

Indexed keywords

60-GHZ TRANSCEIVERS; BASE BANDS; BEAM-STEERING; CMOS; ENERGY EFFICIENT; LOW NOISE AMPLIFIER (LNA); LOW POWER; MILLIMETER WAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PHASE-LOCKED LOOP (PLL);

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; PHASE SHIFT; POWER AMPLIFIERS; TRANSCEIVERS;

LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 82155162327     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2011.2166030     Document Type: Conference Paper

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