Power combining techniques for RF and mm-wave CMOS power amplifiers

ESSCIRC 2007 - Proceedings of the 33rd European Solid-State Circuits Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 272-275

  Reynaert, P ^a   Niknejad, A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

(E ,2E) THEORY; CMOS POWER AMPLIFIERS; CMOS RF; CMOS SCALING; EUROPEAN; FREQUENCY RANGING; MM WAVES; POWER COMBINING; SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS CONFERENCE;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; CLARIFICATION; FREQUENCY SHIFT KEYING; POWER AMPLIFIERS;

BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 44849119960     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ESSCIRC.2007.4430296     Document Type: Conference Paper

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