A novel tunable broadband power amplifier module operating from 0.8 GHz to 2.0 GHz

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 661-664

  Zhang, Haitao ^a   Gao, Huai ^a   Li, Guann Pyng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterojunction bipolar transistors; MMIC power amplifiers; Power bipolar transistor amplifiers; Reconfigurable architectures; Semiconductor diode switches; Tunable circuits and devices

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTIMIZATION; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES;

POWER BIPOLAR TRANSISTOR AMPLIFIERS; RECONFIGURABLE ARCHITECTURES; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODE SWITCHES; TUNABLE CIRCUITS; TUNABLE DEVICES;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 28144441319     PISSN: 0149645X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MWSYM.2005.1516692     Document Type: Conference Paper

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