A dual-band millimeter-wave direct-conversion transmitter with quadrature error correction

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 62, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 3118-3130

  Wu, Po Yi ^a   Gupta, Arpit K ^a   Buckwalter, James F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

BiCMOS; direct conversion transmitter; dual band; error vector magnitude (EVM); in phase and quadrature (I Q) modulator; millimeter wave (mm wave); quadrature error correction

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); BICMOS TECHNOLOGY; DIGITAL TO ANALOG CONVERSION; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MILLIMETER WAVES; POWER AMPLIFIERS; TRANSMITTERS;

BI-CMOS; DIRECT CONVERSION; DUAL-BAND; ERROR VECTOR MAGNITUDE; IN-PHASE; MILLIMETER-WAVE (MM-WAVE); QUADRATURE ERROR CORRECTION;

ERROR CORRECTION;

EID: 84916880492     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2014.2362123     Document Type: Article

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