mm-Wave Silicon Power Amplifiers and Transmitters

Hossein Hashemi is a Professor of Electrical Engineering, Ming Hseih Faculty Fellow, and the co-director of the Ming Hsieh Institute and Ultimate Radio Laboratory, University of Southern California. Sanjay Raman is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech and a former Program Manager in the Microsystems Technology Office, DARPA. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

• 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.