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A fully-integrated 2.6 GHz stacked switching power amplifier in 45nm SOI CMOS with> 2W output power and 43.5% efficiency

Khorshidian et al., 2019

Document ID
329701173082757111
Author
Khorshidian M
Krishnaswamy H
Publication year
Publication venue
2019 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS)

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Power generation in scaled silicon technologies is fundamentally challenged by the low breakdown voltage of silicon-based transistors and the low quality of silicon-based passive components. Consequently, sub-6GHz power amplifiers (PAs) typically exploit compound …
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