60GHz CMOS differential and transformer-coupled power amplifier for compact design

Digest of Papers - IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 65-68

  Larocca, Tim ^a   Chang, Mau Chung Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

CMOS; Differential amplifiers; Millimeter wave amplifiers; Power amplifiers; Transformers

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; POWDERS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; RADIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; RADIO WAVES;

CMOS; COMPACT DESIGNS; COUPLED POWER; DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIERS; DIGITAL CMOS; MATCHING NETWORKS; MILLIMETER WAVE AMPLIFIERS; ON-CHIP TRANSFORMERS; RADIO FREQUENCY INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; TRANSFORMERS;

INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 51849092562     PISSN: 15292517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RFIC.2008.4561387     Document Type: Conference Paper

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