A 60GHz class-E power amplifier in SiGe

2006 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, ASSCC 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 199-202

  Valdes Garcia, Alberto ^a   Reynolds, Scott ^a   Pfeiffer, Ullrich R ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BICMOS TECHNOLOGY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC LINES; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; RAPID PROTOTYPING; SWITCHING;

MILLIMETER-WAVE CLASS-E TUNED POWER AMPLIFIER; TRANSMISSION LINE INPUT IMPEDANCE TRANSFORMATION NETWORK;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 34248144296     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASSCC.2006.357885     Document Type: Conference Paper

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