Feed-forwarding the output voltage to improve efficiency for envelope-tracking power supply based on a switch-linear hybrid scheme

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2106-2111

  Xiong, Xiaoling ^a   Ruan, Xinbo ^a,b   Xi, Huan ^a   Ge, Junji ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

AB type linear amplifier; buck converter; current control strategy; envelope tracking (ET) technique

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE CURRENTS; BUCK CONVERTERS; CONSTANT SWITCHING FREQUENCY; CURRENT CONTROL STRATEGY; ENVELOPE-TRACKING (ET) TECHNIQUE; HIGH EFFICIENCY; HIGHER EFFICIENCY; HYBRID SCHEME; LINEAR AMPLIFIERS; LOAD CURRENTS; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; POWER SUPPLY; RF POWER AMPLIFIERS; SYNCHRONOUS RECTIFICATION; TRANSMITTED SIGNAL; WIDE BANDWIDTH; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

BANDWIDTH; DC-DC CONVERTERS; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC CURRENT CONTROL; POWER AMPLIFIERS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 80051682277     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2011.2119494     Document Type: Article

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