Analysis and design of a high-efficiency multistage Doherty power amplifier for wireless communications

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 53, Issue 3 I, 2005, Pages 852-859

  Srirattana, Nuttapong ^a   Raghavan, Arvind ^b   Heo, Deukhyoun ^c   Allen, Phillip E ^a   Laskar, Joy ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Quellan Inc   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amplifiers; Code division multiple access; MESFETs; Microwave Doherty amplifiers; Microwave power amplifiers; Power amplifiers

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; MESFET DEVICES; PRODUCT DESIGN; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

AMPLIFIERS; MICROWAVE DOHERTY AMPLIFIERS; MICROWAVE POWER AMPLIFIERS; WIRELESS CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS (WCDMA);

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 15844426948     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2004.842505     Document Type: Article

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