• DocumentCode
    3488369
  • Title

    On-chip power combining method in CMOS power amplifier

  • Author

    Lee, Yumi ; Park, Changkun ; Hong, Songcheol

  • Author_Institution
    Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Daejeon
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    16-20 Dec. 2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    In this study, transformers were proposed to remove the degradation of the efficiency improvement in the low output power region. And a proposed tournament-shaped transformer, which is new architecture of magnetically coupled power combiner, is introduced and its advantages are presented.
  • Keywords
    CMOS integrated circuits; power amplifiers; power combiners; CMOS power amplifier; magnetically coupled power combiner; onchip power combining method; tournament-shaped transformer; CMOS technology; Couplings; Distributed amplifiers; Impedance; Power amplifiers; Power combiners; Power generation; Power measurement; Power transmission lines; Radiofrequency amplifiers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microwave Conference, 2008. APMC 2008. Asia-Pacific
  • Conference_Location
    Macau
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2641-6
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2642-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/APMC.2008.4958385
  • Filename
    4958385