50% PAE WCDMA basestation amplifier implemented with GaN HFETs

Technical Digest - IEEE Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Symposium, CSIC

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 89-92

  Kimball, Don ^a   Draxler, Paul ^b   Jeong, Jinho ^a   Hsia, Chin ^a   Lanfranco, Sandro ^c   Nagy, Walter ^d   Linthicum, Kevin ^d   Larson, Larry ^a   Asbeck, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b QUALCOMM INC   (United States)

^c NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d NITRONEX CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Base station power amplifier; Digital predistortion; Efficiency; Envelope tracking; GaN HFET; WCDMA

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL PREDISTORTION (DPD); OFFSET FREQUENCY; POWER-ADDED EFFICIENCY (PAE);

CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; GALLIUM NITRIDE; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 30944450427     PISSN: 15508781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSICS.2005.1531768     Document Type: Conference Paper

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