Tunable CMOS integrated duplexer with antenna impedance tracking and high isolation in the transmit and receive bands

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2092-2104

  Abdelhalem, Sherif H ^a,b   Gudem, Prasad S ^c   Larson, Lawrence E ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NVIDIA   (United States)

^c QUALCOMM INC   (United States)

^d Brown University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular phones; CMOS process; duplexers; frequency division duplex (FDD); impedance tuner; long term evolution (LTE); tunable circuits and devices; WCDMA

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; RADIO RECEIVERS;

CELLULAR PHONE; CMOS PROCESSS; DUPLEXERS; FREQUENCY-DIVISION DUPLEXES; IMPEDANCE TUNERS; LONG-TERM EVOLUTION; TUNABLE CIRCUITS AND DEVICES; WCDMA;

MOBILE ANTENNAS;

EID: 84906948790     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2014.2338271     Document Type: Article

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