A monolithic high-efficiency 2.4-GHz 20-dBm SiGe BiCMOS envelope-tracking OFDM power amplifier

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1271-1281

  Wang, Feipeng ^a,b   Kimball, Donald F ^a,c   Lie, Donald Y ^a,d   Asbeck, Peter M ^a,b   Larson, Lawrence E ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d San Diego   (United States)

Author keywords

Envelope tracking; Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM); Power amplifier (PA); SiGe; Wireless localarea network (WLAN)

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL PREDISTORTION; ENVELOPE TRACKING; OFF-CHIP DIGITAL PREDISTORTION; TWO-STAGE AMPLIFIERS;

BICMOS TECHNOLOGY; DIES; ELECTRIC DISTORTION; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 34249812981     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2007.897170     Document Type: Article

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