Effects of impedance mismatch and imperfect isolation on distortion cancellation in feedforward amplifiers

IEE Proceedings: Circuits, Devices and Systems

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 35-39

  Hau, Y K G ^a   Postoyalko, V ^a   Richardson, J R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distortion cancellation; Feed onward linearisation; Impedance matching; Isolation; Power amplifier; Timing circuits

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; INTERMODULATION; SIGNAL DISTORTION; TUNING;

DISTORTION CANCELLATION; FEEDFORWARD AMPLIFIERS; FEEDFORWARD LINEARIZATION;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0031997228     PISSN: 13502409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/ip-cds:19981603     Document Type: Article

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