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Power Amplifiers at 60GHz and Beyond

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mm-Wave Silicon Technology

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Recently, there has been growing interest in using silicon-based integrated circuits at high microwave and millimeter wave frequencies. The high level of integration offered by silicon enables numerous new topologies and architectures for low-cost reliable SoC applications at microwave and millimeter wave bands, such as broadband wireless access (e.g., WiMax) [1], vehicular radars at 24GHz and 77GHz [2][3], short range communications at 24GHz and 60GHz [4][5][6], and ultra narrow pulse generation for UWB radar [7].

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Afshari, E., Komijani, A. (2008). Power Amplifiers at 60GHz and Beyond. In: Niknejad, A.M., Hashemi, H. (eds) mm-Wave Silicon Technology. Series on Integrated Circuits and Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-76561-7_6

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