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A Balanced Distributed Cascode Power Amplifier With an Integrated Chebyshev Load Balancer for Full-Duplex Wireless Operation

This work proposes a fully integrated transmitter front end based on a balanced distributed cascode power amplifier (BDC-PA) and a passive second-order reconfigurable reflective self-interference cancellation (SIC) filter for full-duplex wireless applications. The balanced topology provides inherent passive transmit–receive (TX–RX) isolation complemented by the passive SIC filter, which accounts for the signal, noise, and nonlinearity components of the direct TX–RX leakages and the reflections from a commercial Wi-Fi antenna.