Design of highly efficient three-stage inverted doherty power amplifier

IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 383-385

  Lee, Mun Woo ^a   Kam, Sang Ho ^a   Lee, Yong Sub ^b   Jeong, Yoon Ha ^a  

^a Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

^b SAMSUNG Electronics   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Doherty power amplifier (PA); efficiency; inverted Doherty PA; LDMOSFET; WCDMA

Indexed keywords

BACK-OFF; CHARACTERISTIC IMPEDANCE; CONTINUOUS-WAVE SIGNALS; DOHERTY; DOHERTY POWER AMPLIFIER; DOHERTY POWER AMPLIFIER (PA); DRAIN EFFICIENCY; HIGH EFFICIENCY; LDMOSFET; LOAD IMPEDANCE; OUTPUT MATCHING NETWORK; OUTPUT POWER; OUTPUT RANGE; TRANSMISSION LINE; WCDMA; WCDMA SIGNALS;

EFFICIENCY;

DOHERTY AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 79960150695     PISSN: 15311309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2011.2153840     Document Type: Article

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