A 24-GHz, + 14.5-dBm fully integrated power amplifier in 0.18-μm CMOS

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1901-1908

  Komijani, Abbas ^a   Natarajan, Arun ^a   Hajimiri, Ali ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amplifier stability; CMOS integrated circuits; Coplanar waveguides; Phased arrays; Radio transmitters; Silicon

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; RADIO TRANSMITTERS; SILICON; WAVEGUIDES;

AMPLIFIER STABILITY; COPLANAR WAVEGUIDE STRUCTURES; INTEGRATED POWER AMPLIFIERS; PHASED ARRAYS;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 25144468768     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2005.848143     Document Type: Conference Paper

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