A W-band medium power amplifier in 90 nm CMOS

IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 818-820

  Jiang, Yu Sian ^a   Tsai, Jeng Han ^b   Wang, Huei ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

CMOS; Microwave monolithic integrated circuit (MMIC); Power amplifier (PA); W band

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MICROWAVE CIRCUITS; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

3DB BANDWIDTHS; 90NM CMOS; CMOS; CMOS PA; CMOS PROCESSES; MEDIUM POWER AMPLIFIERS; MICROWAVE MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (MMIC); SATURATION OUTPUT POWERS; SMALL SIGNAL GAINS; W-BAND;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 57349146237     PISSN: 15311309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2008.2007712     Document Type: Article

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