An integrated wideband power amplifier for cognitive radio

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 55, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2053-2058

  Chen, Yi Jan Emery ^a,b   Yang, Li Yuan ^b   Yeh, Wei Chih ^b,c  

^a IEEE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORPORATION   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cognitive radio (CR); Frequency agile; Load tracking; Power amplifier (PA); Pseudomorphic HEMT (pHEMT); Software defined radio (SDR); Wideband

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE RADIO (CR); LOAD-TRACKING; PSEUDOMORPHIC HEMT (PHEMT); SOFTWARE-DEFINED RADIO (SDR);

ELECTRIC LOADS; FREQUENCY AGILITY; FREQUENCY BANDS; HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTORS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 35348815168     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2007.906497     Document Type: Article

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