Efficiency of chip-level versus external power combining

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1482-1485

  Bryerton, Eric W ^a   Weiss, Manoja D ^a   Popovic, Zoya ^a  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; MESFET DEVICES;

CHIP-LEVEL EFFICIENCY;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0032649199     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.780399     Document Type: Article

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