Linearity improvement of HBT-based doherty power amplifiers based on a simple analytical model

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 4479-4488

  Zhao, Yu ^a,b   Metzger, Andre G ^a,c   Zampardi, Peter J ^a,c   Iwamoto, Masaya ^a,d   Asbeck, Peter M ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS INC   (United States)

^d AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Code division multiple access (CDMA); Doherty amplifier; Heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT)

Indexed keywords

AUXILIARY POWER AMPLIFIERS; DOHERTY AMPLIFIERS; SINGLE ENDED AMPLIFIERS; TUNED PHASE DELAY;

CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; GAIN MEASUREMENT; HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; INTERMODULATION DISTORTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 33847702167     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2006.883245     Document Type: Article

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