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1. Power Amplifiers for Millimeter-Wave Systems

Authors : Jaco du Preez, Saurabh Sinha

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Power amplifiers (PA)s typically appear at the end of the radio transmitter, and their main objective is to increase the power level of the radiated signal Rogers and Plett (Radio Frequency integrated circuit design, 2nd edn. Artech House. Inc, Hoboken, NJ, [1]).

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Title: Power Amplifiers for Millimeter-Wave Systems
Authors: Jaco du Preez
Saurabh Sinha
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Millimeter-Wave Power Amplifiers
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-62165-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-62166-1

Copyright Year: 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62166-1_1

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