Wafer-scale W-band power amplifiers using on-chip antennas

Digest of Papers - IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 469-472

  Atesal, Yusuf A ^a   Cetinoneri, Berke ^a   Alhalabi, Ramadan A ^a   Rebeiz, Gabriel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Millimeter wave integrated circuits; Power amplifier (PA); Silicon germanium (SiGe) HBT; W band

Indexed keywords

EFFECTIVE RADIATED POWER; HIGH EFFICIENCY; MILLIMETER-WAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ON CHIP ANTENNA; ON CHIPS; PHASED ARRAYS; POWER COMBINING; SIGE POWER AMPLIFIERS; SILICON GERMANIUM HBTS; WAFER-SCALE;

ANTENNAS; DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; GERMANIUM; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; RADIO; RADIO WAVES; SILICON ALLOYS; SILICON WAFERS;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 77954513676     PISSN: 15292517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RFIC.2010.5477386     Document Type: Conference Paper

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