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A 48 dBm peak power RF switch in SOI process for 5G mMIMO applications

Malladi et al., 2019

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5180026862459658523
Author
Malladi V
Miller M
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2019 IEEE 19th Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems (SiRF)

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This paper presents an analysis & comparison of GaAs and SOI processes for RF switch designs with applications aimed at 5G massive MIMO RF front end applications. An RF switch in SOI 130 nm process is presented. The switch operates from 0.1-3 GHz and …
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