Mitigation of bandwidth limitation in wireless doherty amplifiers with substantial bandwidth enhancement using digital techniques

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 60, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2875-2885

  Darraji, Ramzi ^a   Ghannouchi, Fadhel M ^a   Helaoui, Mohamed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; digital Doherty power amplifier (PA); efficiency; frequency; load modulation; wideband operation

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH ENHANCEMENT; BANDWIDTH LIMITATION; CENTER FREQUENCY; DIGITAL DOMAIN; DIGITAL TECHNIQUES; DOHERTY; DOHERTY POWER AMPLIFIER; DRAIN EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY DEGRADATION; FREQUENCY; FREQUENCY OF OPERATION; FREQUENCY RANGES; FREQUENCY-SELECTIVE; LOAD MODULATION; LONG-TERM EVOLUTION; OUTPUT POWER; PRE-COMPENSATION; WIDEBAND CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; WIDEBAND OPERATION;

CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; DOHERTY AMPLIFIERS; EFFICIENCY; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; INTEROPERABILITY; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WIMAX;

BANDWIDTH;

EID: 84867581801     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2012.2207910     Document Type: Article

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