Analysis of a fully matched saturated doherty amplifier with excellent efficiency

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 328-338

  Kim, Jangheon ^a,b   Moon, Junghwan ^b   Woo, Young Yun ^c   Hong, Sungchul ^c   Kim, Ildu ^b   Kim, Jungjoon ^b   Kim, Bumman ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

^c SAMSUNG Electronics   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Doherty amplifier; Efficiency; Linearization; Power amplifier (PA); Wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA)

Indexed keywords

CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FEEDBACK; MODULATION; SIGNAL ANALYSIS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

DOHERTY AMPLIFIERS; WIDEBAND CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS (WCDMA);

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 38849203766     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2007.914361     Document Type: Article

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