Transformer-coupled power amplifier stability and power back-off analysis

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 507-511

  Chowdhury, Debopriyo ^a   Reynaert, Patrick ^a,b   Niknejad, Ali M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

CMOS; Power amplifiers (PAs); Power combining; Stability

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIERS;

AMPLIFIER STABILITY; ANALYTICAL RESULTS; DIFFERENTIAL POWER AMPLIFIER; EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; POWER AMPLIFIERS (PAS); POWER COMBINING; TRANSFORMER COUPLED;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 46649110757     PISSN: 15497747     EISSN: 15583791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2007.914899     Document Type: Article

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