Design of a dual-band GaN Doherty amplifier

4th Microwave and Radar Week, MRW-2010 - 18th International Conference on Microwaves, Radar and Wireless Communications, MIKON 2010 - Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Colantonio, Paolo ^a   Feudo, Fabio ^a   Giannini, Franco ^a   Giofrè, Rocco ^a   Piazzon, Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Doherty power amplifier; Dual band; GAN HEMT

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE DEVICES; BACK-OFF; DOHERTY POWER AMPLIFIER; DUAL-BAND; GAN HEMT; GAN HEMTS; HYBRID TECHNOLOGY; IMPEDANCE INVERTERS; IMPEDANCE TRANSFORMERS; INPUT POWER; OUTPUT POWER; PASSIVE STRUCTURES; PHASE COMPENSATION;

DESIGN; GALLIUM ALLOYS; GALLIUM NITRIDE; MICROWAVES; RADAR; RADIO WAVES; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

DOHERTY AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 77958564408     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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