The Evolution of Integrated CMOS Power Amplifiers for Next Generation Mobile Wireless Transceivers

Wireless communication standard continues to evolve in order to fulfill the demand for high data rate operation. This leads to the exertion on the design of radio frequency power amplifier (RFPA) w...

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