Avalanche breakdown protection by adaptive output power control

Proceedings - 2006 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 519-522

  Van Bezooijen, André ^a   Van Straten, Freek ^a   Mahmoudi, Reza ^b   Van Roermund, Arthur H M ^b  

^a NXP SEMICONDUCTORS   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptive control; Avalanche breakdown; Over voltage protection; Power amplifiers

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; POWER AMPLIFIERS; POWER CONTROL; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; TRANSISTORS;

ADAPTIVE CONTROL; AVALANCHE BREAKDOWN; OVER-VOLTAGE PROTECTION;

OVERVOLTAGE PROTECTION;

EID: 33846381663     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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