A broadband 480-GHz passive frequency doubler in 65-nm bulk CMOS with 0.23mW output power

Digest of Papers - IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 203-206

  Han, Ruonan ^a   Afshari, Ehsan ^a  

^a School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

CMOS; frequency doubler; passive; terahertz; varactor

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION MODES; BROAD BAND MATCHING; BULK CMOS; CMOS; CMOS PROCESSS; CONVERSION LOSS; DC POWER; DOUBLERS; GATE LENGTH; HARMONIC SIGNALS; HIGH-POWER GENERATION; LOW POWER; MOS VARACTOR; OUTPUT FREQUENCY; OUTPUT POWER; OXIDE THICKNESS; PASSIVE; RING STRUCTURES; TERA HERTZ; UNSATURATED OUTPUT POWER; VOLTAGE SWINGS;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CUTOFF FREQUENCY; DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; VARACTORS;

FREQUENCY DOUBLERS;

EID: 84866600731     PISSN: 15292517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RFIC.2012.6242264     Document Type: Conference Paper

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