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The Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) is one of the most important and crucial parts in a telecommunications transceiver. It is the first active circuit in the receiver part following the antenna as shown in Fig. 5.1 for the superheterodyne architecture. Due to its location in the receiver chain, it dominates the noise performance and the VSWR of the complete system. Therefore, a LNA must exhibit low noise figure, high gain, good linearity performance and input VSWR as low as possible.
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Papananos, Y.E. (1999). Low Noise Amplifiers. In: Radio-Frequency Microelectronic Circuits for Telecommunication Applications. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3017-3_5
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