An 18-GHz, 10.9-dBm fully-integrated power amplifier with 23.5% PAE in 130-nm CMOS

Proceedings of ESSCIRC 2005: 31st European Solid-State Circuits Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 137-140

  Cao, Changhua ^a   Xu, Haifeng ^a   Su, Yu ^a   Kenneth, K O ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; POWER SUPPLY CIRCUITS;

DIGITAL CMOS PROCESS; DRIVER INSTABILITY; DRIVER STAGES; LOCKING TECHNIQUES;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 33749186904     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ESSCIR.2005.1541578     Document Type: Conference Paper

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