A dual-mode CMOS RF power amplifier with integrated tunable matching network

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 77-88

  Yoon, Youngchang ^a   Kim, Jihwan ^b   Kim, Hyungwook ^a   An, Kyu Hwan ^a   Lee, Ockgoo ^a   Lee, Chang Ho ^a   Kenney, James Stevenson ^c  

^a QUALCOMM INC   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

CMOS; RF power amplifiers (PAs); switched capacitor; tunable amplifiers; tunable matching network

Indexed keywords

CMOS; RF POWER AMPLIFIERS; SWITCHED CAPACITOR; TUNABLE AMPLIFIERS; TUNABLE MATCHING NETWORKS;

BANDPASS FILTERS; CAPACITORS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INTEGRATION; POWER AMPLIFIERS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

DC POWER TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84855457813     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2011.2175235     Document Type: Article

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