Phase predistortion of a class-D outphasing RF amplifier in 90 nm CMOS

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs

Volumn 58, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 642-646

  Fritzin, Jonas ^a   Jung, Ylva ^a   Landin, Per Niklas ^b,c,d   Handel, Peter ^b,c   Enqvist, Martin ^a   Alvandpour, Atila ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÄVLE   (Sweden)

^d VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Amplifier; complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS); linearization; outphasing

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; EFFICIENCY; LINEARIZATION; METALS; MOS DEVICES; OXIDE SEMICONDUCTORS;

ADJACENT CHANNEL LEAKAGE RATIOS; COMPLEMENTARY METAL OXIDE SEMICONDUCTORS; ENHANCED DATA RATES FOR GSM EVOLUTIONS; ON-CHIP TRANSFORMER; OUTPHASING; POWER-ADDED EFFICIENCY; PREDISTORTION METHOD; WIDEBAND CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 80054876012     PISSN: 15497747     EISSN: 15583791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2011.2164149     Document Type: Article

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