{"id":108,"date":"2015-05-01T17:18:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T01:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ece.ucdavis.edu\/hsics\/?p=108"},"modified":"2015-05-01T17:18:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-02T01:18:17","slug":"w-band-amplifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ece.ucdavis.edu\/hsics\/w-band-amplifier\/","title":{"rendered":"W-band Amplifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>A W-band Current Combined Power Amplifier with 14.8dBm Psat and 9.4% Maximum PAE in 65nm CMOS<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This W-band power amplifier delivers up to 14.8dBm saturated output power with over 14dB power gain and better than 9.4% power added efficiency (PAE), which also achieves better than 11.6dBm output P1dB. A current power combiner is employed to combine the power from two separate PAs. The entire PA core occupies 0.106 mm2 chip area and dissipates about 200mW.<\/p>\n<div>Z. Xu, Q. J. Gu, and M.-C. F. Chang, \u201cA W-band Current Combined Power Amplifier with 14.8dBm Psat and 9.4% Maximum PAE in 65nm CMOS,\u201d <i>IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC)<\/i> 2011<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>A W-band Current Combined Power Amplifier with 14.8dBm Psat and 9.4% Maximum PAE in 65nm CMOS<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This W-band power amplifier delivers up to 14.8dBm saturated output power with over 14dB power gain and better than 9.4% power added efficiency (PAE), which also achieves better than 11.6dBm output P1dB. A current  \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ece.ucdavis.edu\/hsics\/w-band-amplifier\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":65,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ece.ucdavis.edu\/hsics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ece.ucdavis.edu\/hsics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ece.ucdavis.edu\/hsics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ece.ucdavis.edu\/hsics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ece.ucdavis.edu\/hsics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ece.ucdavis.edu\/hsics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ece.ucdavis.edu\/hsics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ece.ucdavis.edu\/hsics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ece.ucdavis.edu\/hsics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ece.ucdavis.edu\/hsics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}