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A SiGe BiCMOS W-Band LNA with 5.1 dB NF at 90 GHz

Yang et al., 2013

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11669490306353357055
Author
Yang Y
Cacina S
Rebeiz G
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2013 IEEE Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Symposium (CSICS)

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This paper presents a W-band low-noise amplifier using an advanced 90nm SiGe BiCMOS technology. The 4-stage common-emitter amplifier results in a gain of 18-19 dB at 90-100 GHz with a 3-dB bandwidth of 75-105 GHz. The measured noise figure is<; 6.5 dB from 85 …
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