Design of a 4-W envelope tracking power amplifier with more than one octave carrier bandwidth

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2298-2308

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Base station; broadband; dynamic supply modulator; efficiency; envelope tracking; gallium nitride (GaN); integrated circuit; power amplifier (PA); WCDMA

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND; CARRIER BANDWIDTH; CARRIER FREQUENCY; CLASS-AB; DRAIN BIAS; DRAIN EFFICIENCY; ENVELOPE TRACKING; FEEDBACK NETWORKS; INPUT MATCH; LOAD RESISTANCES; MODULATED SIGNAL; OUTPUT POWER; PEAK TO AVERAGE POWER RATIO; RF POWER AMPLIFIERS; SINGLE-CHIP; SUPPLY MODULATOR; WCDMA; WCDMA SIGNALS;

BANDWIDTH; BASE STATIONS; GALLIUM NITRIDE; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MODULATORS; POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84867395380     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2012.2204927     Document Type: Article

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