High-efficiency envelope-tracking W-CDMA base-station amplifier using GaN HFETs

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3848-3855

  Kimball, Donald F ^a,b   Jeong, Jinho ^a,c   Hsia, Chin ^c   Draxler, Paul ^a,c,d   Lanfranco, Sandro ^e   Nagy, Walter ^f   Linthicum, Kevin ^f   Larson, Lawrence E ^a,c   Asbeck, Peter M ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d QUALCOMM INC   (United States)

^e NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^f NITRONEX CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Envelope elimination and restoration (EER); Envelope tracking (ET); Power amplifier

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL LEAKAGE RATIO; ENVELOPE ELIMINATION AND RESTORATION (EER); ENVELOPE TRACKING (ET); ERROR VECTOR MAGNITUDE;

BANDWIDTH; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; GALLIUM NITRIDE; HETEROJUNCTIONS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; RADIO STATIONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

EID: 33750844183     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2006.884685     Document Type: Article

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