Design of power efficient power amplifier for B3G base stations

2010 9th International Symposium on Electronics and Telecommunications, ISETC'10 - Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 89-92

  Hussaini, Abubakar Sadiq ^a,c   Gwandu, Bashir A L ^b   Abd Alhameed, Raed ^a   Rodriguez, Jonathan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC)   (Nigeria)

^c INSTITUTO DE TELECOMUNICAÇÕES   (Portugal)

Author keywords

3.5GHz band; 4G; Base station; Class AB; Doherty RF power amplifier; Mobile WiMAX; OFDM

Indexed keywords

4G; CLASS AB; DOHERTY; GHZ BAND; MOBILE WIMAX; OFDM;

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); BASE STATIONS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; PHASE MODULATION; TELECOMMUNICATION; WIMAX;

DOHERTY AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 79551558081     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISETC.2010.5679310     Document Type: Conference Paper

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