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The circuit employs a CC-based approach to obtain wide-band input matching without the need for bulky inductances, allowing broadband performance with a very small area used. The NC technique is applied by subtracting the input transistor\u2019s noise contribution to the output and achieves a noise figure (NF) reduction from 4.8 dB to 3.2 dB. The NC LNA is implemented in a UMC 65-nm CMOS process and occupies an area of only 160 \u00d7 80 \u03bcm2. It achieves a stable frequency response from 0 to 6.2 GHz, a maximum gain of 15.3 dB, an input return loss (S11) &lt; \u221210 dB, and a remarkable IIP3 of 7.6 dBm, while consuming 18.6 mW from a \u00b11.2 V DC supply. Comparisons with similar works prove the effectiveness of this new implementation, showing that the circuit obtains a noteworthy performance trade-off.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22145246","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,7,14]],"date-time":"2022-07-14T00:12:40Z","timestamp":1657757560000},"page":"5246","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Miniature Wide-Band Noise-Canceling CMOS LNA"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0174-7408","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"David","family":"Galante-Sempere","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute for Applied Microelectronics (IUMA), Departament of Electronics and Automatic Engineering, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), Campus Universitario de Tafira, 35017 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2610-883X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Javier","family":"del Pino","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute for Applied Microelectronics (IUMA), Departament of Electronics and Automatic Engineering, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), Campus Universitario de Tafira, 35017 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain"}]},{"given":"Sunil Lalchand","family":"Khemchandani","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute for Applied Microelectronics (IUMA), Departament of Electronics and Automatic Engineering, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), Campus Universitario de Tafira, 35017 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0942-5761","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hugo","family":"Garc\u00eda-V\u00e1zquez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Instituto de Astrof\u00edsica de Canarias (IAC), 38205 San Crist\u00f3bal de La Laguna, Spain"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,7,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"D\u00edaz-Ortega, R., Khemchandani, S.L., Garc\u00eda-V\u00e1zquez, H., and del Pino, J. 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