A wideband 77GHz, 17.5dBm power amplifier in silicon

Proceedings of the Custom Integrated Circuits Conference

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 571-574

  Komijani, Abbas ^a   Hajimiri, Ali ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SILICON;

MICROSTRIP TUBS; PEAK POWER GAIN; POWER-ADDED EFFICIENCY (PAE);

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 33847104238     PISSN: 08865930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CICC.2005.1568732     Document Type: Conference Paper

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