“…Figures 8 to 14 present comparisons among different PA techniques for five published papers in terms of the power gain (dB), PAE (%), power consumption (mW), area (mm 2 ), gain flatness (±dB), input matching S11 (dB), and output matching (dB), respectively. Among the PA techniques are one-stage common-source amplifier[21],[47]-[49], two-stage cascaded amplifier[12],[16],[21], [22],[48], three-stage cascaded amplifier[11],[17],[39],[45],[55], one-stage cascode amplifier[23],[24],[26],[34],[35], two-stage cascode amplifier[25],[27],[38],[40],[53], and two-stage hybrid amplifier[30],[48],[49],[50],[57].Concluding the results demonstrated in Tables 1 to 3 and Figures 8 to 14: − As expected, employing the cascode scheme (one-stage, or two-stage, or hybrid) increases the power gain.The highest power gain of 25 dB, 28.7 dB, and 22.8 dB has been achieved by[49],[50],[57], respectively, which utilized cascode current-reused configuration followed by a current-source amplifier as shown in Figure8. − The greatest PAE of 47.5% has been achieved utilizing the two-stage cascode technique[27].…”