A 2.5-GHz asymmetric multilevel outphasing power amplifier in 65-nm CMOS

2011 IEEE Radio and Wireless Week, RWW 2011 - 2011 IEEE Topical Conference on Power Amplifiers for Wireless and Radio Applications, PAWR 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 57-60

  Godoy, Philip A ^a   Chung, Sung Won ^a   Barton, Taylor W ^a   Perreault, David J ^a   Dawson, Joel L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetric multilevel outphasing (AMO); Asymmetric power combining; Digital predistortion; LINC; Outphasing; Power amplifier (PA)

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC POWER COMBINING; CMOS PROCESSS; DIGITAL PREDISTORTION; DISCRETE SETS; ENERGY LOST; HIGH EFFICIENCY; LINC; LINEAR AMPLIFICATION USING NON LINEAR COMPONENTS; OUTPHASING; PEAK OUTPUT POWER; PEAK TO AVERAGE POWER RATIO; POWER COMBINER; POWER-ADDED EFFICIENCY; QAM SIGNALS;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; TRANSMITTERS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 79953043443     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PAWR.2011.5725372     Document Type: Conference Paper

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