Design considerations for 60 GHz transformer-coupled CMOS power amplifiers

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2733-2744

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

CMOS power amplifier; Mm wave; Power amplifiers; Transformers

Indexed keywords

10 GB/ S; 90NM CMOS; CMOS PA; CMOS POWER AMPLIFIER; CMOS POWER AMPLIFIERS; COUPLED POWER; DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; DESIGN METHODOLOGY; DISTRIBUTED MODELS; DRIVER STAGE; EFFICIENT POWER; LUMPED MODELS; MM-WAVE; MM-WAVE FREQUENCIES; ON-CHIP TRANSFORMER; OUTPUT POWER; PASSIVE ELEMENTS; POWER GAINS; TRANSFORMERS; TWO STAGE; VERY HIGH FREQUENCY;

DESIGN; MILLIMETER WAVES; POWER AMPLIFIERS;

POWER TRANSFORMERS;

EID: 70350616356     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2009.2028752     Document Type: Article

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