SiGe HBT power amplifier with 40% PAE for PCS CDMA applications

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

Volumn 2, Issue , 2000, Pages 857-860

  Zhang, Xiangdong ^a   Saycocie, Chone ^a   Munro, Scott ^a   Henderson, Gregory ^a  

^a IBM MICROELECTRONICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJACENT CHANNEL POWER RATIO; POWER ADDED EFFICIENCY; SILICON GERMANIUM POWER AMPLIFIER;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GAIN MEASUREMENT; HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; MICROELECTRONIC PROCESSING; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; TELEPHONE SETS;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0033678378     PISSN: 0149645X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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