PA Survey

Eleventh Web release on 14.08.2026

Download PA Survey V11. (XLSX, 3.1 MB) This is the eleventh public release (Version 11.0) that includes PAs/transmitters from 500MHz to 1.5 THz in Bulk/SOI CMOS, SiGe, LDMOS, InP, GaN, GaAs technologies. The dataset contains total 6185 data points with over 2217 data points for CMOS, SiGe PAs and over 3968 data points for GaN, GaAs, InP, LDMOS PAs and other designs.

Our group has made an A-to-Z move from Atlanta to Zurich, and now we are a part of ETH Zurich D-ITET. Please reference this survey as the "ETH PA Survey."

What is new in version-11 release?

Power Amplifier designs in RF/mm-Wave/sub-THz frequencies and sub-THz/THz power/signal generation circuits published between 08/2025 and 06/2026.
The entries on PA core areas and power density calculations have been checked and updated.

More information:

Hua Wang, Filippo Svelto, Basem Abdelaziz, Yuqi Liu, Chenhao Chu, Jinglong Xu, Niccolò Villaggi, Abdelrahman Habib, Islam Tolaib, Argyro Kamperi, Apostolos Christou, Yizhou Xu, Mohsen Ghorbanpoor, Andrea Ruffino, Mohamed Eleraky, Bryan Lin, Edward Liu, Kyungsik Choi, Tzu-Yuan Huang, Hossein Jalili, Naga Sasikanth Mannem, Jeongsoo Park, Jeongseok Lee, David Munzer, Sensen Li, Fei Wang, Amr S. Ahmed, Christopher Snyder, Huy Thong Nguyen, and Michael Edward Duffy Smith, "Power Amplifiers Performance Survey 2000-Present," [Online]. Available: https://ideas.ethz.ch/surveys/pa-survey.html
Acknowledgement: We would like to sincerely thank many of our friends and colleagues for their helpful suggestions and insightful discussions.
Feedback and Suggestions: We welcome your feedback and suggestions, including the ways to interpret and present the data. In addition, although we try to be as inclusive as possible when collecting these published data, it is certainly possible that we may miss some representative PA designs. Please feel free to send us feedback, suggestions, or missing PA papers.
Contact: Please contact us through poweramplifiers.survey at gmail dot com. Do not use any other email address, since I may very likely miss your email.
Source for this data collection: We focus on peer-reviewed and publicly accessible publications that are typical forums for PAs, including IEEE ISSCC, JSSC, RFIC, VLSI, CICC, ESSCIRC, IMS, T-MTT, TCAS, BCTM/CSICS (BCICTS in the future), APMC, EuMC, and MWCL. We also focus on public product datasheets on PAs/transmitters.