A 2.4 GHz fully integrated cascode-cascade CMOS doherty power amplifier

IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 197-199

  Yang, Li Yuan ^b   Chen, Hsin Shu ^a,b   Chen, Yi Jan Emery ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

CMOS; Efficiency; Fully integrated; Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM); Peak to average power ratio (PAPR); Power amplifier (PA); Power back off

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC LINES; INTEGRATION; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); POWER AMPLIFIERS;

AMPLIFIER CIRCUIT; QUARTER WAVELENGTH TRANSMISSION LINES;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 40549121663     PISSN: 15311309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2008.916812     Document Type: Article

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