Distributed active transformer-a new power-combining and impedance-transformation technique

By Ichiro Aoki, Scott D. Kee, David B. Rutledge, Ali Hajimiri. 2002

475 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/e417d71bc1628b70960d01dc7b24736b4a3d5fa3

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In Biomedical Engineering

1. Ichiro Aoki
2. David B. Rutledge
3. Ali Hajimiri
4. Scott D. Kee
5. Juan Rivas
6. David J. Perreault

In Electrical and Electronic Engineering

1. David J. Perreault
2. Juan Rivas
3. John S. Shafran
4. Riad S. Wahby
5. Ali Hajimiri
6. Scott D. Kee
7. Ichiro Aoki
8. David B. Rutledge

Citations in the corpus

• New Architectures for Radio-Frequency DC–DC Power Conversion (2006, methodology): “Using these techniques, tuned inverters can be designed to operate with good efficiency into the gigahertz range, and in some cases can be completely integrated [29], [31].”
• Fully integrated CMOS power amplifier design using the distributed active-transformer architecture (2002, methodology): “Details of the passive impedance transformation and power-combining network comparing its efficiency to the conventional methods are presented in a companion paper [13].”
• The class-E/F family of ZVS switching amplifiers (2003, methodology): “This result uses the distributed active transformer on-chip matching and power-combining structure [22], [23], which is not compatible with either the class-E or class-F tunings.”