Design of a high-efficiency and high-power inverted Doherty amplifier

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1105-1110

  Ahn, Gunhyun ^b   Kim, Min Su ^b   Park, Hyun Chul ^a,b   Jung, Sung Chan ^b   Van, Ju Ho ^b   Cho, Hanjin ^b   Kwon, Sung Wook ^b   Jeong, Jong Hyuk ^b   Lim, Kyung Hoon ^b   Kim, Jae Young ^c   Song, Sung Chan ^c   Park, Cheon Seok ^a,b   Yang, Youngoo ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^c Samsung Thales   (South Korea)

Author keywords

4 differential quadrature phase shift keying (DQPSK); Doherty power amplifier; Inverted Doherty power amplifier (IDFA); Load modulation; Offset line

Indexed keywords

INVERTED DOHERTY POWER AMPLIFIERS (IDPA); LOAD MODULATION; OFFSET LINES; OPERATIONAL PRINCIPLES;

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC LOADS; MACHINE DESIGN; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); PHASE SHIFT KEYING;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 34250191839     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2007.896807     Document Type: Conference Paper

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