Transformer-based doherty power amplifiers for mm-wave applications in 40-nm CMOS

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1186-1192

  Kaymaksut, Ercan ^a   Zhao, Dixian ^a   Reynaert, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Back off efficiency; CMOS; Doherty power amplifier (PA); millimeter wave (mm wave) backhaul

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; EFFICIENCY; MILLIMETER WAVES; POWER AMPLIFIERS; TOPOLOGY;

BACKOFFS; DOHERTY POWER AMPLIFIER; HIGH LINEARITY; MILLIMETER-WAVE (MM-WAVE); MM-WAVE APPLICATION; POWER BACK OFFS; POWER-ADDED EFFICIENCY; TUNING CIRCUITS;

DOHERTY AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 84927516508     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2015.2409255     Document Type: Conference Paper

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