Broadband HBT doherty power amplifiers for handset applications

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 58, Issue 12 PART 2, 2010, Pages 4031-4039

  Kang, Daehyun ^a   Kim, Dongsu ^a   Moon, Junghwan ^a   Kim, Bumman ^a  

^a Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Broadband; Doherty; efficient; handset; hetero junction bipolar transistors (HBT); linear; MMIC; mobile worldwide interoperability for microwave access (m WiMAX); power amplifier (PA)

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND; DOHERTY; EFFICIENT; HANDSET; LINEAR; MMIC; WORLDWIDE INTEROPERABILITY FOR MICROWAVE ACCESS;

BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; CHANNEL ESTIMATION; INTEROPERABILITY; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; TELEPHONE SETS; WIMAX;

DOHERTY AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 78650418522     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2010.2086070     Document Type: Conference Paper

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