GaAs MMIC Doherty Power Amplifier with asymmetrical drain bias voltage

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   Giannini, Franco ^a   Giofrè, Rocco ^a   Piacentini, Marco ^a   Piazzon, Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Doherty Power Amplifier; High efficiency; MMIC design

Indexed keywords

BACK-OFF; DOHERTY POWER AMPLIFIER; DRAIN BIAS VOLTAGE; DRAIN EFFICIENCY; FREQUENCY BAND WIDTH; GAAS; GAIN COMPRESSION; HIGH EFFICIENCY; MAXIMUM OUTPUT POWER; MMIC DESIGN; OUTPUT POWER;

GALLIUM ALLOYS; GALLIUM ARSENIDE; MICROWAVES; RADAR; RADIO WAVES; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

DOHERTY AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 77958608917     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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