A simple method for measuring the IM3 components of multi-stage cascaded power amplifiers considering the phase characteristics

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 1731-1734

  Nakatani, Toshifumi ^a   Matsuura, Toru ^a   Ogawa, Koichi ^a  

^a PANASONIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cascaded circuits; Intermodulation distortion; Phase measurement; Power amplifiers; Power demand

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DISTORTION (WAVES); ELECTRIC LINES; INTERMODULATION; MICROWAVE CIRCUITS; NONLINEAR NETWORK ANALYSIS; PHASE CONTROL;

CASCADED CIRCUITS; INTERMODULATION DISTORTION; PHASE MEASUREMENTS; POWER DEMAND;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 4544260526     PISSN: 0149645X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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