A SiGe envelope-tracking power amplifier with an integrated CMOS envelope modulator for mobile WiMAX/3GPP LTE transmitters

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 59, Issue 10 PART 1, 2011, Pages 2525-2536

  Li, Yan ^a   Lopez, Jerry ^a   Wu, Po Hsing ^b   Hu, Weibo ^a   Wu, Ruili ^a   Lie, Donald Y C ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b Diodes Inc   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Differential cascode power amplifier (PA); envelope tracking (ET); high efficiency; linear assisted switching envelope modulator; long term evolution (LTE); SiGe BiCMOS; WiMAX

Indexed keywords

64-QUADRATURE AMPLITUDE MODULATIONS; BROADBAND CHARACTERISTICS; ENVELOPE TRACKING; ERROR VECTOR MAGNITUDE; MULTIBAND APPLICATIONS; POWER-ADDED EFFICIENCY; SIGE BICMOS; SIGE BICMOS PROCESS;

BICMOS TECHNOLOGY; LONG TERM EVOLUTION (LTE); MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MODULATORS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS; QUADRATURE AMPLITUDE MODULATION; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SILICON ALLOYS; TRANSMITTERS; WIMAX;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84871135239     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2011.2164550     Document Type: Article

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