Advanced design methods of Doherty amplifier for wide bandwidth, high efficiency base station power amplifiers

35th European Microwave Conference 2005 - Conference Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 963-966

  Kim, Jangheon ^a   Cha, Jeonghyeon ^a   Kim, Ildu ^a   Noh, Sang Yeon ^b   Park, Cheon Seok ^b   Kim, D Bumman ^a  

^a Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

^b AmorePacific Corporation   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

CIRCUIT OPTIMIZATION; DRAIN EFFICIENCY; LOAD MODULATION; MATCHING CIRCUITS;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 33847146801     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EUMC.2005.1610088     Document Type: Conference Paper

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