A 120-GHz FMCW radar frontend demonstrator based on a SiGe chipset

European Microwave Week 2011: "Wave to the Future", EuMW 2011, Conference Proceedings - 41st European Microwave Conference, EuMC 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 519-522

  Jahn, M ^a   Hamidipour, A ^a   Tong, Z ^a   Stelzer, A ^a  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

FMCW; millimeter wave bipolar transistors; millimeter wave circuits; millimeter wave radar; MMICs; SiGe HBT

Indexed keywords

FMCW; MILLIMETER WAVE CIRCUITS; MILLIMETER WAVE RADAR; MMICS; SIGE HBTS;

CONTINUOUS WAVE RADAR; GERMANIUM; HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; MILLIMETER WAVES; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OSCILLISTORS; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADAR SYSTEMS; SILICON ALLOYS;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

EID: 84855811378     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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