Investigation of efficiency vs. linearity trade-offs in LINC amplifiers for varying outphasing combiner reactances

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 274-277

  Hamdane, W ^a   El Asmar, M ^a   Birafane, A ^a   Kouki, A B ^a  

^a LaCIME Laboratory   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCHANNEL INTERFERENCE; COMMERCE; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; MODULATION; POWER AMPLIFIERS; QUADRATURE AMPLITUDE MODULATION;

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; OUTPHASING;

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 50649115088     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICECS.2007.4510983     Document Type: Conference Paper

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