Outphasing energy recovery amplifier with resistance compression for improved efficiencyc

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2895-2906

  Godoy, Philip A ^a   Perreault, David J ^a   Dawson, Joel L ^a  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Linear amplification with nonlinear components (LINC); Outphasing; Radio frequency (RF) power amplifier; Resistance compression

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE COMPONENTS; EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT; ENERGY RECOVERY; HIGH EFFICIENCY; HIGH LINEARITY; LINEAR AMPLIFICATION WITH NON LINEAR COMPONENTS; MATCHED COMBINER; MEASUREMENT RESULTS; OPERATING FREQUENCY; OUTPHASING; OUTPUT POWER; PEAK POWER; PEAK TO AVERAGE POWER RATIO; POWER SUPPLY; QAM SIGNALS; RADIO FREQUENCY POWER; SWITCHING-MODE;

AMPLIFICATION; POWER AMPLIFIERS; RESISTORS;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 73049087585     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2009.2033976     Document Type: Article

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