Rudell, Jacques CHuang, Chenxi2016-04-062016-04-062016-03Huang_washington_0250O_15612.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/1773/35570Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2016-03This thesis describes a single-ended switch-capacitor harmonic-rejection power amplifier for the 915 MHz ISM band for ZigBee applications. A multipath feed-forward harmonic-rejection technique is employed to suppress the 2nd/3rd/4th harmonics of the switch-capacitor power amplifier (PA) by 48/17/24 dB, respectively. The measured PA peak drain efficiency is 43% at a peak output power of 8.9dBm with the harmonic-rejection enabled. This PA was implemented in a 40nm TSMC CMOS process with an active area of 180μm×700μm.application/pdfen-USCMOS; Power amplifiers; Switched capacitor circuits; ZigBeeElectrical engineeringelectrical engineeringThesis