Fully integrated CMOS power amplifier with efficiency enhancement at power back-off

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 600-609

  Liu, Gang ^b   Haldi, Peter ^c   Liu, Tsu Jae King ^a,d   Niknejad, Ali M ^a,d  

^a IEEE

^b MARVELL SEMICONDUCTOR INC   (United States)

^c Simon Kucher and Partners   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

CMOS; Efficiency; Integration; Linearity; Power amplifier

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; GAIN CONTROL; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

VOLTAGE COMBINED AMPLIFIERS; VOLTAGE COMBINING TRANSFORMERS;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 40149102403     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2007.916585     Document Type: Article

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