A high efficiency 780 MHz GaN envelope tracking power amplifier

Technical Digest - IEEE Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Symposium, CSIC

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Yan, Jonmei J ^a,b   Theilmann, Paul ^b   Kimball, Donald F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MaXentric   (United States)

Author keywords

700MHz; 800 MHz; band 14; efficiency; envelope tracking; gallium nitride; LTE; power amplifier; WCDMA

Indexed keywords

700MHZ; 800 MHZ; BAND 14; ENVELOPE TRACKING; LTE; WCDMA;

GALLIUM NITRIDE; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; QUADRATURE AMPLITUDE MODULATION;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84871111443     PISSN: 15508781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSICS.2012.6340093     Document Type: Conference Paper

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