{"title":"A 1-Watt Ku-band power amplifier in SiGe with 37.5% PAE","authors":"Ying Chen, M. van der Heijden, D. Leenaerts","doi":"10.1109/RFIC.2016.7508317","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper demonstrates a 1-Watt output power amplifier MMIC operating from 13.5GHz to 14.5GHz (Ku-band). The power amplifier employs an on-chip integrated 16-way in-phase output current combiner to achieve the required output power. Implemented in a 0.25-μm SiGe:C BiCMOS technology, the power amplifier achieves a power-added efficiency of 37.5% at 14.1GHz with greater than 35.5% across the band of interest.","PeriodicalId":163595,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2016-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"11","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2016 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFIC.2016.7508317","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This paper demonstrates a 1-Watt output power amplifier MMIC operating from 13.5GHz to 14.5GHz (Ku-band). The power amplifier employs an on-chip integrated 16-way in-phase output current combiner to achieve the required output power. Implemented in a 0.25-μm SiGe:C BiCMOS technology, the power amplifier achieves a power-added efficiency of 37.5% at 14.1GHz with greater than 35.5% across the band of interest.