Digital predistortion for high efficiency power amplifier architectures using a dual-input modeling approach

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 361-369

  Cao, Haiying ^a   Nemati, Hossein Mashad ^b   Soltani Tehrani, Ali ^a   Eriksson, Thomas ^a   Fager, Christian ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b ERICSSON RESEARCH   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Digital predistortion; dynamic load modulation; efficiency; envelope tracking; linearization; power amplifier

Indexed keywords

ADJACENT CHANNEL LEAKAGE RATIOS; BASE BANDS; CONTROL SIGNAL; DIGITAL PREDISTORTION; DYNAMIC LOAD MODULATION; ENVELOPE TRACKING; HIGH EFFICIENCY POWER AMPLIFIERS; LOAD MODULATION; MODELING APPROACH; NORMALIZED MEAN SQUARE ERROR; POWER-ADDED EFFICIENCY; SUPPLY VOLTAGES;

ALIGNMENT; BANDWIDTH; DYNAMIC LOADS; EFFICIENCY; LINEARIZATION; POWER AMPLIFIERS; VARACTORS;

LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

EID: 84857033932     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2011.2176956     Document Type: Article

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