Wideband high efficiency envelope tracking integrated circuit for micro-base station power amplifiers

Digest of Papers - IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Kwak, Myoungbo ^a   Kimball, Donald ^a   Presti, Calogero ^a,b   Scuderi, Antonino ^a,c   Santagati, Carmelo ^a,c   Yan, Jonmei ^a   Asbeck, Peter ^a   Larson, Lawrence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b QUALCOMM INC   (United States)

^c STMICROELECTRONICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Base station power amplifier; digital predistortion; efficiency; envelope tracking; linearity; micro base station

Indexed keywords

BASE-STATION POWER AMPLIFIER; DIGITAL PREDISTORTION; ENVELOPE TRACKING; LINEARITY; MICRO BASE-STATION;

BASE STATIONS; BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT TRACKING; GALLIUM NITRIDE; INTEGRATION; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; RADIO; RADIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; RADIO WAVES;

HIGH FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 79960828502     PISSN: 15292517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RFIC.2011.5940621     Document Type: Conference Paper

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