Wideband envelope tracking power amplifier for LTE application

Digest of Papers - IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 275-278

  Kim, Dongsu ^a   Kang, Daehyun ^b   Kim, Jooseung ^a   Cho, Yunsung ^a   Kim, Bumman ^a  

^a Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

^b BROADCOM CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Envelope tracking; long term evolution (LTE); polar transmitter; power amplifier; wide bandwidth

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL BANDWIDTH; CMOS PROCESSS; ENVELOPE TRACKING; FEEDBACK PATHS; LINEAR AMPLIFIERS; OUTPUT POWER; POLAR TRANSMITTER; SUPPLY MODULATOR; WIDE BANDWIDTH; WIDE-BAND; WIDEBAND OPERATION;

BANDWIDTH; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LONG TERM EVOLUTION (LTE); POWER AMPLIFIERS;

MODULATORS;

EID: 84866621323     PISSN: 15292517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RFIC.2012.6242280     Document Type: Conference Paper

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