Impact of bias schemes on doherty power amplifiers

Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 212-215

  Liu, Chih Yun ^a   Chen, Yi Jan Emery ^a   Heo, Deukhyoun ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Washington State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BIAS; AUXILIARY DEVICE; AUXILIARY POWER; CLASS-AB; DESIGN TRADEOFF; DOHERTY POWER AMPLIFIER; EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE; GAIN FLATNESS; HIGH-POWER OPERATION; LOW-POWER OPERATION; POWER GAINS; POWER-ADDED EFFICIENCY; THIRD ORDER HARMONICS;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS;

EID: 33750811202     PISSN: 02714310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2005.1464562     Document Type: Conference Paper

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