A CMOS bidirectional 32-element phased-array transceiver at 60 GHz with LTCC antenna

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1359-1375

  Cohen, Emanuel ^a,b   Ruberto, Mark ^a   Cohen, Moshik ^c   Degani, Ofir ^a   Ravid, Shmuel ^b   Ritter, Dan ^b  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

60 GHz; Bidirectional; flip chip; phase shifter (PS); phased array; power consumption

Indexed keywords

60 GHZ; BIDIRECTIONAL; EFFECTIVE ISOTROPIC RADIATED POWER; ERROR VECTOR MAGNITUDE; FLIP CHIP; LOW TEMPERATURE CO FIRED CERAMIC(LTCC); RF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; TRANSMIT/RECEIVE SWITCHES;

ALUMINA; ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; ANTENNAS; BUILT-IN SELF TEST; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; INTEGRATION TESTING; OSCILLISTORS; PHASE SHIFTERS; VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

CERAMIC PRODUCTS;

EID: 84874950603     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2013.2243749     Document Type: Article

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