A 1.2V, 2.4GHz fully integrated linear CMOS power amplifier with efficiency enhancement

Proceedings of the Custom Integrated Circuits Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 141-144

  Liu, Gang ^a,b   Liu, Tsu Jae King ^b   Niknejad, Ali M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; POWER CONTROL;

MATCHING NETWORKS; POWER GAIN;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 33847660221     PISSN: 08865930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CICC.2006.320852     Document Type: Conference Paper

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