Efficiency enhancement and linearity trade-offs for cascode vs. common-emitter SiGe power amplifiers in WiMAX polar transmitters

ISCAS 2010 - 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems: Nano-Bio Circuit Fabrics and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1915-1918

  Li, Yan ^a   Lopez, Jerry ^a   Lie, Donald Y C ^a   Chen, Kevin ^b   Wu, Stanley ^b   Yang, Tzu Yi ^b  

^a Texas Tech University   (United States)

^b INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND WIRELESS APPLICATIONS; CASCODE; COMMON EMITTER; COMMON-BASE; DEVICE SIZES; EFFICIENCY ENHANCEMENT; ENVELOPE TRACKING; LOW POWER; MOBILE WIMAX; OUTPUT POWER; POLAR TRANSMITTER; POWER-ADDED EFFICIENCY; RF SWITCH; SELF BIASING; SIGE POWER AMPLIFIERS; SINGLE STAGE;

FABRICS; LINEARIZATION; POWER AMPLIFIERS; SILICON ALLOYS; TRANSMITTERS; WIMAX;

HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS;

EID: 77955987725     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2010.5537979     Document Type: Conference Paper

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