A high dynamic range CMOS RF power amplifier with a switchable transformer for polar transmitters

Digest of Papers - IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 737-740

  Kim, Younsuk ^a   Ku, Bon Hyun ^b   Park, Changkun ^b   Lee, Dong Ho ^b   Hong, Songcheol ^b  

^a Samsung Electro Mechanics   (South Korea)

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

Author keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; MMIC power amplifiers; MOSFET power amplifiers; UHF power amplifiers

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; FREQUENCY BANDS; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MOSFET DEVICES; SWITCHING NETWORKS; TRANSMITTERS; UHF DEVICES;

MMIC POWER AMPLIFIERS; MOSFET POWER AMPLIFIERS; SWITCHABLE TRANSFORMERS; UHF POWER AMPLIFIERS;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 34748854227     PISSN: 15292517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RFIC.2007.380988     Document Type: Conference Paper

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