A comprehensive analysis of IMD behavior in RF CMOS power amplifiers

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 24-34

  Fager, Christian ^a   Pedro, José Carlos ^b   Borges De Carvalho, Nuno ^b   Zirath, Herbert ^a   Fortes, Fernando ^c   Rosário, Maria João ^c  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO DE TELECOMUNICAÇÕES   (Portugal)

Author keywords

CMOS; Distortion; Intermodulation; Large signal; Modeling; Power amplifiers; Two tone measurements

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; INTERMODULATION; MOSFET DEVICES; POWER AMPLIFIERS; SIGNAL NOISE MEASUREMENT; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

INTERMODULATION DISTORTION; PIECEWISE FUNCTION; TWO TONE MEASUREMENT;

SIGNAL DISTORTION;

EID: 0742286340     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2003.820860     Document Type: Article

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