GaN envelope tracking power amplifier with more than one octave carrier bandwidth

Technical Digest - IEEE Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Symposium, CSIC

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Yan, Jonmei J ^a   Hsia, Chin ^a   Kimball, Donald F ^a   Asbeck, Peter M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

broadband; efficiency; envelope tracking; gallium nitride; integrated circuit; power amplifier

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND; CARRIER BANDWIDTH; CARRIER FREQUENCY; CENTER FREQUENCY; CW EXCITATION; DRAIN EFFICIENCY; ENVELOPE TRACKING; FREQUENCY RANGES; OUTPUT POWER; SINGLE CARRIER; SYSTEM EFFICIENCY; WCDMA SIGNALS;

BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; EFFICIENCY; GALLIUM ARSENIDE; GALLIUM NITRIDE; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INTEGRATION; POWER AMPLIFIERS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON ALLOYS;

ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT TRACKING;

EID: 81455139404     PISSN: 15508781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSICS.2011.6062485     Document Type: Conference Paper

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