Slew-rate limited envelopes for driving envelope tracking amplifiers

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 17-20

  Montoro, Gabriel ^a   Gilabert, Pere L ^a   Vizarreta, Pedro ^a   Bertran, Eduard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Amplifier distortion; Digital predistortion; Efficiency; Envelope amplifier; Envelope tracking

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIER DISTORTION; BANDWIDTH LIMITATION; DIGITAL PREDISTORTION; ENVELOPE AMPLIFIER; ENVELOPE TRACKING; SLEW-RATE; TRANSMITTED SIGNAL;

GALLIUM NITRIDE;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 79953047890     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PAWR.2011.5725386     Document Type: Conference Paper

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