A comparative overview of microwave and wireless power-amplifier behavioral modeling approaches

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 53, Issue 4 I, 2005, Pages 1150-1163

  Pedro, José C ^a   Maas, Stephen A ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE TELECOMUNICAÇÕES   (Portugal)

^b Applied Wave Research Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave power amplifiers; Modeling; Nonlinear filters; Nonlinear systems

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FILTERS; MICROWAVES; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CIRCUIT-LEVEL SIMULATION; MICROWAVE POWER AMPLIFIERS; NONLINEAR FILTERS; PARAMETER EXTRACTION;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 18744368816     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2005.845723     Document Type: Review

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