An 83-GHz High-Gain SiGe BiCMOS Power Amplifier Using Transmission-Line Current-Combining Technique - Chen, Austin Ying-Kuang; Baeyens, Y.; Young-Kai Chen; Jenshan Lin (IEEE transactions on microwave theory and techniques, 2013)
Keywords: Amplifiers; Applied sciences; Automotive radar; Circuit properties; current combining; Devices; E -band; Electric, optical and optoelectronic circuits; Electronic circuits; Electronic equipment and fabrication. Passive components, printed wiring boards, connectics; Electronics; Exact sciences and technology; Failure; Gain; Impedance matching; Microwave circuits, microwave integrated circuits, microwave transmission lines, submillimeter wave circuits; millimeter wave; Millimeter wave technology; Networks; Noise levels; Performance evaluation; point-to-point link; power amplifier (PA); Power amplifiers; power combining; Power gain; Power generation; Redundancy; Silicon germanides; Silicon germanium; silicon-germanium (SiGe) BiCMOS; Transmission lines; W -band; Performance evaluation; Output power; Ge-Si alloys; Power gain; silicon-germanium (SiGe) BiCMOS; Implementation; Automotive radar; BiCMOS technology; Millimetric wave; Power combiners; Transmission line; current combining; Electrodiffusion; E-band; Data link; Multistage circuit; Cost lowering; Multistage method; power combining; power amplifier (PA); Large signal behavior; Compact design; Power electronics; Cascode connection; Combiner circuit; millimeter wave; High power; W-band; point-to-point link; Power amplifier; Reliability; Power transmission line