A fully-integrated high-power linear CMOS power amplifier with a parallel-series combining transformer

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 599-614

  Kim, Jihwan ^a,b   Kim, Woonyun ^a,d   Jeon, Hamhee ^a,c   Huang, Yan Yu ^a,b   Yoon, Youngchang ^a,d   Kim, Hyungwook ^a,d   Lee, Chang Ho ^a,d   Kornegay, Kevin T ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c TRIQUINT SEMICONDUCTOR   (United States)

^d QUALCOMM INC   (United States)

Author keywords

CMOS; High power; Parallel combining; Power amplifier; Power combining; Series combining; Transformer; WiMAX

Indexed keywords

CMOS; HIGH-POWER; PARALLEL COMBINING; POWER-COMBINING; SERIES COMBINING; TRANSFORMER;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; WIMAX;

POWER TRANSFORMERS;

EID: 84862819747     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2011.2180977     Document Type: Article

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