Analyzing LINC systems

IEEE Microwave Magazine

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 59-71

  Birafane, Ahmed ^a   El Asmar, Mohamad ^a   Kouki, Ammar B ^a   Helaoui, Mohamed ^b   Ghannouchi, Fadhel ^b  

^a LaCIME Laboratory   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIER SYSTEMS; AMPLIFIER TOPOLOGY; BRANCH SYSTEM; CELLULAR BASE STATIONS; CRITICAL COMPONENT; DESIGN ENGINEERS; DIGITAL PREDISTORTION TECHNIQUES; ENVELOPE ELIMINATION AND RESTORATIONS; HIGH-POWER; LINEAR AMPLIFICATION WITH NON LINEAR COMPONENTS; LOW POWER; PORTABLE DEVICE; POWER EFFICIENCY; POWER LEVELS; RADIO FREQUENCY POWER; RECENT TRENDS; RELATIVE ORDER; RELATIVE WEIGHTS; SINGLE-ENDED; SPACE-BASED; TERRESTRIAL APPLICATION; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM; WIRELESS TRANSMITTER;

AMPLIFICATION; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DESIGN; ENGINEERS; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; RADIO BROADCASTING; TRANSMITTERS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

DOHERTY AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 77954575939     PISSN: 15273342     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MMM.2010.935774     Document Type: Article

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