Integrated Micromechanical Circuits for RL Front Ends

ESSDERC 2006 - Proceedings of the 36th European Solid-State Device Research Conference

Volumn 2006-January, Issue , 2006, Pages 7-16

  Nguyen, Clark T C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Filter; Lsi; Mechanical circuit; Mems; Micromechanical; Oscillator; Quality factor; Resonator; RF mems; VLSI; Wireless communications

Indexed keywords

MEMS; MICROMECHANICAL RESONATORS; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE; RESONATORS; SOLID STATE DEVICES; VLSI CIRCUITS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; MICROMECHANICS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

FILTER; MICRO-MECHANICAL; QUALITY FACTORS; RF-MEMS; VLSI; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; AGING STABILITY; CIRCUIT COMPLEXITY; FREQUENCY PROCESSING; MECHANICAL CIRCUIT; WIRELESS APPLICATIONS;

OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 84957882164     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ESSCIR.2006.307523     Document Type: Conference Paper

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