Analysis of a novel BAW-based power amplifier

ECCTD 2009 - European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design Conference Program

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 375-378

  Contaldo, Matteo ^a,b   Enz, Christian C ^a,b  

^a CSEM   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAW RESONATOR; CLASS E; CMOS TECHNOLOGY; CO-DESIGNS; DESIGN APPROACHES; DRAIN EFFICIENCY; INTEGRATION METHOD; ON CHIPS; OPTIMUM PERFORMANCE; OUTPUT POWER;

CIRCUIT THEORY; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; POWER AMPLIFIERS;

DESIGN;

EID: 71249086788     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECCTD.2009.5274992     Document Type: Conference Paper

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