Analysis and design of a 60 GHz wideband voltage-voltage transformer feedback LNA

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 60, Issue 3 PART 2, 2012, Pages 702-713

  Sakian, Pooyan ^a   Janssen, Erwin ^a   Van Roermund, Arthur H M ^a   Mahmoudi, Reza ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Low noise amplifier; millimeter wave; receiver; transformer; wideband

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS AND DESIGN; ANALYTICAL FORMULAS; CMOS TECHNOLOGY; FLAT-GAIN; FULLY INTEGRATED; REVERSE ISOLATION; TRANSFORMER; TRANSFORMER FEEDBACK; TWO STAGE; WIDE-BAND;

BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; MILLIMETER WAVES; RECEIVERS (CONTAINERS);

LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 84858153931     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2011.2178426     Document Type: Article

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