A broadband SiGe power amplifier in an efficient polar transmitter using envelope-tracking for mobile WiMAX

2011 IEEE 11th Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems, SiRF 2011 - Digest of Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 137-140

  Li, Yan ^a   Lopez, Jerry ^a   Lie, Donald Y C ^a   Chen, Kevin ^b   Wu, Stanley ^b   Yang, Tzu Yin ^b  

^a Texas Tech University   (United States)

^b INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cascode power amplifier (PA); Envelope amplifier; Envelope tracking (ET); PA linearization; Polar transmitter; Power added efficiency (PAE)

Indexed keywords

CASCODE POWER AMPLIFIER (PA); ENVELOPE AMPLIFIER; ENVELOPE-TRACKING (ET); PA LINEARIZATION; POLAR TRANSMITTER; POWER-ADDED EFFICIENCY (PAE);

BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LINEARIZATION; POWER AMPLIFIERS; QUADRATURE AMPLITUDE MODULATION; RADIOFREQUENCY SPECTROSCOPY; SILICON ALLOYS; TRANSMITTERS; WIMAX;

MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 79952855958     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SIRF.2011.5719324     Document Type: Conference Paper

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