A ferroelectric-capacitor-based tunable matching network for quad-band cellular power amplifiers

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 370-374

  Tombak, All ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b RF MICRO DEVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

Barium strontium titanate (EST); Ferroelectric; Output matching network; Paraelectric; Power amplifier (PA); Tunable matching network (TMN); Varactor

Indexed keywords

BARIUM-STRONTIUM-TITANATE (BST); OUTPUT MATCHING NETWORK; TUNABLE MATCHING NETWORK (TMN);

CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; FERROELECTRIC DEVICES; POWER AMPLIFIERS; VARACTORS;

PACKET NETWORKS;

EID: 33847758725     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2006.889349     Document Type: Article

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