Wideband harmonically-tuned GaN Doherty power amplifier

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Bathich, Khaled ^a   Boeck, Georg ^a,b  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FÜR HÖCHSTFREQUENZTECHNIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Broadband amplifiers; Doherty amplifier; Harmonic tuning; HEMTs; High power amplifiers

Indexed keywords

DEVICE SIZES; DIGITAL PREDISTORTION; DOHERTY POWER AMPLIFIER; EFFICIENCY DEGRADATION; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT; FREQUENCY-SENSITIVE; HARMONIC LOADS; HARMONIC TUNING; HEMTS; HIGH POWER AMPLIFIER; LONG-TERM EVOLUTION; MAXIMUM OUTPUT POWER; MAXIMUM POWER; OUTPUT POWER; POWER-ADDED EFFICIENCY; WIDE-BAND; WIDEBAND CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; DESIGN; EFFICIENCY; GALLIUM NITRIDE; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TUNING;

DOHERTY AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 84866777576     PISSN: 0149645X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MWSYM.2012.6259385     Document Type: Conference Paper

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