TEDS base-station power amplifier using low-noise envelope tracking power supply

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1687-1693

  Høyerby, Mikkel C W ^a   Andersen, Michael A E ^b  

^a MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cartesian feedback (CFB); Envelope tracking (ET); Linearization; Power amplifiers (PAs)

Indexed keywords

ADJACENT CHANNEL POWER RATIO; CARTESIAN FEEDBACK; DATA SERVICES; EMPIRICAL METHOD; ENVELOPE TRACKING; HIGH BANDWIDTH; LOOP BANDWIDTH; LOW NOISE; OPEN LOOPS; OUTPUT POWER; OVERALL EFFICIENCY; PEAK TO AVERAGES; POWER SUPPLY; RF POWER AMPLIFIERS; RMS ERRORS; SWITCHING NOISE; SWITCHING RIPPLES; WIDEBAND NOISE;

BANDWIDTH; FEEDBACK LINEARIZATION; GROUP DELAY; POWER AMPLIFIERS;

DC POWER TRANSMISSION;

EID: 77958102224     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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