Design of wide-bandwidth envelope-tracking power amplifiers for OFDM applications

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 53, Issue 4 I, 2005, Pages 1244-1254

  Wang, Feipeng ^a   Yang, Annie Hueichine ^a,b   Kimball, Donald F ^a   Larson, Lawrence E ^a   Asbeck, Peter M ^a  

^a University of California at San Diego   (United States)

^b Naval Command   (United States)

Author keywords

Envelope elimination and restoration (EER); Envelope tracking (ET); Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM); Power amplifiers; Power tracking; Time alignment; Wireless local area network (WLAN)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; TRANSMITTERS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ENVELOPE ELIMINATION AND RESTORATION (EER); ENVELOPE TRACKING (ET); POWER TRACKING; TIME ALINGMENT; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK (WLAN);

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 18744385289     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2005.845716     Document Type: Article

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