A Doherty power amplifier with extended resonance power divider for linearity improvement

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 423-426

  Nick, Morteza ^a   Mortazawi, Amir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Doherty; Extended resonance; Linearization; Power amplifiers

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVES; POWER AMPLIFIERS; RESONANCE;

AMPLIFIER INPUTS; DOHERTY; DOHERTY AMPLIFIERS; DOHERTY POWER AMPLIFIERS; EXTENDED RESONANCE; EXTENDED RESONANCES; INPUT POWERS; NON LINEARITIES; OUTPUT POWERS; POWER DIVIDERS; POWER DIVISIONS;

LINEARIZATION;

EID: 57349116110     PISSN: 0149645X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MWSYM.2008.4633193     Document Type: Conference Paper

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