Compact transformer power combiners for millimeter-wave wireless applications

Digest of Papers - IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 223-226

  Zhao, Yi ^a   Long, John R ^a   Spirito, Marco ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Current summing transformer; Millimeter wave; Power amplifier; Power combiner; SiGe BiCMOS

Indexed keywords

BI-CMOS; CHIP AREAS; ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATION; FULLY-DIFFERENTIAL; GHZ BAND; LARGE-SIGNALS; LUMPED ELEMENT MODEL; MILLIMETERWAVE POWER AMPLIFIERS; POWER AMPLIFICATION; POWER-LOSSES; SUBSTRATE COUPLINGS; TRANSFORMER POWER; WIRELESS APPLICATION;

AMPLIFICATION; DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; POWER AMPLIFIERS; RADIO WAVES; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SILICON ALLOYS;

RADIO;

EID: 77954530189     PISSN: 15292517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RFIC.2010.5477373     Document Type: Conference Paper

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