mm-Wave Highly-Linear Broadband Power Amplifiers

In Chap. 1 the system level requirements in terms of TX bandwidth and linearity were addressed. Chapter 2 introduced the design challenges of deep-scaled CMOS actives and passives components and in Chap. 3 several gain-bandwidth enhancement techniques were considered. This chapter brings these results together and applies them to mm-Wave broadband CMOS power amplifiers (PAs) design.

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