A 90-nm CMOS doherty power amplifier with minimum AM-PM distortion

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1323-1331

  Elmala, Mostafa ^a,b   Paramesh, Jeyanandh ^a,b   Soumyanath, Krishnamurthy ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

AM PM distortion; Doherty power amplifier (PA); Impedance transformer; Quadrature hybrid

Indexed keywords

AM-PM DISTORTION; DOHERTY POWER AMPLIFIER (PA); IMPEDANCE TRANSFORMERS; QUADRATURE HYBRID;

ELECTRIC DISTORTION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; POWER AMPLIFIERS;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 33746645697     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2006.874284     Document Type: Article

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