17-GHz 50-60 mW power amplifiers in 0.13-μm standard CMOS

IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 37-39

  Vasylyev, Andriy V ^a   Weger, Peter ^a   Bakalski, Winfried ^b   Simbuerger, Werner ^b  

^a BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

CMOS power amplifier; Impedance matching; On chip balun; On chip transformer; Wireless local area network (LAN)

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; POWER ELECTRONICS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CMOS POWER AMPLIFIERS; IMPEDANCE MATCHING; ON-CHIP BALUNS; ON-CHIP TRANSFORMERS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (LAN);

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 30344482587     PISSN: 15311309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2005.861347     Document Type: Article

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