A CMOS RF power amplifier using an off-chip transmision line transformer with 62% PAE

IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 385-387

  Jang, Jaemin ^a,b   Park, Changkun ^b   Kim, Haksun ^c   Hong, Songcheol ^a,b  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology ^*

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^c Hanbat National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Class D; Class E; CMOS power amplifier (PA); Driver amplifier; Power added efficiency (PAE); Transformer

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; ELECTRIC WIRE;

CMOS POWER AMPLIFIER (PA); DRIVER AMPLIFIER; POWER ADDED EFFICIENCY (PAE); POWER COMBINERS;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 34247647636     PISSN: 15311309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2007.895723     Document Type: Article

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