Supporting and enabling circuits for antenna arrays in wireless communications

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 100, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2207-2218

  Poon, Ada S Y ^a   Taghivand, Mazhareddin ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

60 GHz communication; Antenna array; baseband beamforming; Cartesian vector modulator; digital beamforming; LO path phase shifter; load line phase shifter; local oscillator (LO) beamforming; millimeter wave communication; phase oversampling vector modulator; radio frequency (RF) beamforming; reflective type phase shifter; switched delay phase shifter; wireless local area network (WLAN)

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; BEAMFORMING; DIGITAL RADIO; MILLIMETER WAVES; PHASE SHIFTERS; TIMING CIRCUITS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

60-GHZ COMMUNICATIONS; BASEBAND BEAMFORMING; CARTESIAN VECTOR MODULATORS; DIGITAL BEAM FORMING; LO-PATH PHASE SHIFTERS; LOAD-LINE PHASE SHIFTERS; MILLIMETER-WAVE COMMUNICATION; PHASE-OVERSAMPLING VECTOR MODULATORS; REFLECTIVE-TYPE PHASE SHIFTERS; SWITCHED-DELAY PHASE SHIFTERS;

BEAM FORMING NETWORKS;

EID: 84862643657     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2012.2186949     Document Type: Conference Paper

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