mm-Wave Silicon Power Amplifiers and Transmitters

Build high-performance, spectrally clean, energy-efficient mm-wave power amplifiers and transmitters with this cutting-edge guide to designing, modeling, analysing, implementing and testing new mm-wave systems. Suitable for students, researchers and practicing engineers, this self-contained guide provides in-depth coverage of state-of-the-art semiconductor devices and technologies, linear and nonlinear power amplifier technologies, efficient power combining systems, circuit concepts, system architectures and system-on-a-chip realizations. The worlds foremost experts from industry and academia cover all aspects of the design process, from device technologies to system architectures. Accompanied by numerous case studies highlighting practical design techniques, tradeoffs and pitfalls, this is a superb resource for those working with high-frequency systems.

1. Silicon-based mm-wave transmitters: motivation and state-of-the-art Hossein Hashemi and Sanjay Raman
2. Characteristics, performance, modelling, and reliability of SiGe HBT technologies for mm-wave power amplifiers David Harame, Vibhor Jain and Renata Camillo Castillo
3. Characteristics, performance, modelling, and reliability of CMOS technologies for mm-wave power amplifiers Antonio Scuderi and Egidio Ragonese
4. Linear-mode mm-wave silicon power amplifiers James Buckwalter
5. Switching-mode mm-wave silicon power amplifiers Harish Krishnaswamy, Anandaroop Chakarbarti, Kunal Datta and Hossein Hashemi
6. Stacked mm-wave amplifiers Peter Asbeck and Harish Krishnaswamy
7. On-chip power combining techniques for mm-wave silicon power amplifiers Jeng-Han Tsai, Jin-Fu Yeh and Tian-Wei Huang
8. Out-phasing mm-wave silicon transmitters Patrick Reynaert and Dixian Zhao
9. Digital mm-wave silicon transmitters Ali Niknejad and Sorin Voinigescu
10. System-on-a-chip mm-wave silicon transmitters Arun Natarajan and Brian Floyd
11. Self-healing for mm-wave power amplifiers Ali Hajimiri, Steve Bowers, Kaushik Sengupta and Kaushik Dasgupta.