Increasing the talk-time of mobile radios with efficient linear transmitter architectures

Electronics and Communication Engineering Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 65-76

  Mann, Steve ^b   Beach, Mark ^a   Warr, Paul ^b   McGeehan, Joe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGING (BATTERIES); GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; LINEARIZATION; POWER AMPLIFIERS; RADIO TRANSMITTERS; TELEPHONE SETS;

POWER AMPLIFIER LINEARIZATION METHODS;

MOBILE RADIO SYSTEMS;

EID: 0035306479     PISSN: 09540695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/ecej:20010204     Document Type: Article

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