High-efficiency envelope-tracking transmitter with optimized Class-F -1 amplifier and 2-bit envelope amplifier for 3G LTE base station

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1610-1621

  Kim, Joon Hyung ^a   Jo, Gweon Do ^a   Oh, Jung Hoon ^a   Kim, Young Hoon ^a   Lee, Kwang Chun ^a   Jung, Jae Ho ^a   Park, Chul Soon ^b  

^a Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Envelope amplifier (EA); envelope tracking (ET); GaN; inverse class F power amplifier (PA); nonlinear capacitance

Indexed keywords

ENVELOPE AMPLIFIER (EA); ENVELOPE TRACKING (ET); GAN; INVERSE CLASS F; NONLINEAR CAPACITANCE;

CAPACITANCE; GALLIUM NITRIDE; OPTIMIZATION; POWER AMPLIFIERS; POWER ELECTRONICS; TRANSMITTERS;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 79959245446     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2011.2125984     Document Type: Article

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