New RF front end technologies

This paper provides an overview of numerous recent advancements in RF front end technology. Various techniques for designing novel front-end technology are outlined. Examples of the application of the active integrated antenna design approach are given for both the high-power transmitter and low-noise receiver modes. In addition, several architectures implementing novel mixer designs are presented to achieve baseband receivers and retrodirective arrays.

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