A robust modeling and design approach for dynamically loaded and digitally linearized doherty amplifiers

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2875-2883

  Sirois, Jérôme ^b,c   Boumaiza, Slim ^a,d,f   Helaoui, Mohamed ^b   Brassard, Gilles ^a,e,g   Ghannouchi, Fadhel M ^a,d,f,h  

^a IEEE

^b POLY GRAMES RESEARCH CENTER   (Canada)

^c Focus Microwaves Inc   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^e CANADIAN SPACE AGENCY   (Canada)

^f Intelligent RF Radio Laboratory   (Canada)

^g Electronic Engineering Group   (Canada)

^h INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER   (Canada)

Author keywords

Baseband predistortion; High efficiency Doherty amplifier; Load pull; WCDMA

Indexed keywords

BASEBAND PREDISTORTIONS; HIGH EFFICIENCY DOHERTY AMPLIFIERS; LOAD-PULL; WCDMA;

CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; DYNAMIC LOADS; ELECTRIC DISTORTION; LINEARIZATION; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSISTORS;

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 27744595170     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2005.854257     Document Type: Conference Paper

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