A 5.25 GHz SiGe bipolar power amplifier for IEEE 802.11a wireless LAN

IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium, RFIC, Digest of Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 567-570

  Bakalski, Winfried ^a,c   Kitlinski, Krzysztof ^a,b   Donig, Günter ^a   Kapfelsperger, Boris ^a   Österreicher, Wilfried ^a   Auchter, Wolfgang ^a   Weigel, Robert ^b   Scholtz, Arpad L ^c  

^a INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Onchip matching; PAE; Power amplifiers; SiGe; WLAN

Indexed keywords

ONCHIP MATCHING; PAE; SIGE; WLAN;

BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; CAPACITORS; CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; INDUCTANCE; POWER AMPLIFIERS; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; SCHEMATIC DIAGRAMS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

LOCAL AREA NETWORKS;

EID: 4444331062     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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