A new 2.6 GHz CMOS LTE 4G handset receiver front-end with a wideband rectangular dielectric resonator antenna are proposed. The antenna provides an impedance bandwidth of 95% for VSWR < 2.5. A monopole antenna conformed standard (2.05 ～ 5.8 GHz) characteristics including return loss and radiation patterns were analyzed and discussed. LTE 4G handset receiver front-end using merged folded cascoded (MFC) scheme demonstrate a 13.7 dB gain, low noise figure of 5.6 dB, and IIP3 at - 1.67dBm with 1.97 mA bias current from a 1.0-V power supply.
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