A modified doherty power amplifier with extended bandwidth and reconfigurable efficiency

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 533-542

  Gustafsson, David ^a   Andersson, Christer M ^a   Fager, Christian ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Broadband amplifiers; Doherty; gallium nitride; GaN; high efficiency; power amplifiers; wideband

Indexed keywords

DOHERTY; DOHERTY POWER AMPLIFIER; GAN; OUTPUT POWER; WIDE-BAND;

BANDWIDTH; BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; DOHERTY AMPLIFIERS; GALLIUM NITRIDE; POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84872974675     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2012.2227783     Document Type: Article

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