Millimeter-wave low power UWB CMOS common-gate low-noise amplifier

YANG Ge-Liang; WANG Zhi-Gong; LI Zhi-Qun; LI Qin; LIU Fa-En; LI Zhu

doi:10.3724/sp.j.1010.2014.00584

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