Behavioral modeling of nonlinear RF power amplifiers considering memory effects

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2495-2504

  Ku, Hyunchul ^a   Kenney, J Stevenson ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetries; Intermodulation; Memory effect; Memory polynomial; Nonlinearities; Power amplifiers (PAs)

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; IIR FILTERS; INTERMODULATION; NONLINEAR DISTORTION; PHASE MODULATION; PHASE SHIFT; POLYNOMIALS;

LINEAR TIME INVARIANT FILTER; MEMORY EFFECTS; MEMORY POLYNOMIAL; PARALLEL WIENER MODEL;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0742269424     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2003.820155     Document Type: Article

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