A 1-V CMOS power amplifier for bluetooth applications

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 445-449

  Ho, Ka Wai ^a   Luong, Howard C ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Bluetooth; Class E; CMOS; High efficiency; Low voltage; Power amplifier

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; FEEDBACK; GATES (TRANSISTOR); POWER AMPLIFIERS; POWER SUPPLY CIRCUITS; TRANSCEIVERS; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

POWER ADDED EFFICIENCY (PAE);

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0041317172     PISSN: 10577130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2003.814803     Document Type: Article

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