The objective of this research is to design and implement low-noise wideband RFIC components with CMOS technology for the direct-conversion architecture. This research proposes noise reduction techniques to improve the thermal noise and flicker noise contribution of a low noise amplifier (LNA) and a mixer. Of these techniques, the LNA is found to reduce noise, boost gain, and consume a relatively low amount of power without sacrificing the wideband and linearity advantages of a conventional common gate (CG) topology. The research concludes by investigating the proposed mixer topology, which senses and compensates local oscillator (LO) phase mismatches, the dominant cause of flicker noise.
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:GATECH/oai:smartech.gatech.edu:1853/50127 |
Date | 09 February 2012 |
Creators | Woo, Sang Hyun |
Contributors | Tentzeris, Emmanouil M. |
Publisher | Georgia Institute of Technology |
Source Sets | Georgia Tech Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
Language | en_US |
Detected Language | English |
Type | Dissertation |
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