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Efficiency improvement techniques for RF power amplifiers in deep submicron CMOS

Banerjee et al., 2015

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7503838775765666158
Author
Banerjee A
Hezar R
Ding L
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Publication venue
2015 IEEE custom integrated circuits conference (CICC)

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Integration of RF power amplifier (PA) in CMOS technology can help to reduce total solution cost and achieve small form factor in modern communication systems. To improve overall efficiency of the power amplifier supporting modulated signals with very high peak-to …
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