A Wideband and compact GaN MMIC doherty amplifier for microwave link applications

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 922-930

  Gustafsson, David ^a   Cahuana, Jessica Chani ^a   Kuylenstierna, Dan ^a   Angelov, Iltcho ^a   Rorsman, Niklas ^a   Fager, Christian ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE DEVICES; ADJACENT CHANNEL POWER RATIO; CONTINUOUS WAVE MEASUREMENTS; DOHERTY; DOHERTY POWER AMPLIFIER; FREQUENCY RANGES; GAN; GHZ FREQUENCIES; HIGH CHARACTERISTIC IMPEDANCE; MAXIMUM OUTPUT POWER; OUTPUT POWER; PEAK TO AVERAGE POWER RATIO; POWER-ADDED EFFICIENCY; WIDE-BAND;

BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; GALLIUM NITRIDE; MICROWAVES; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; POWER AMPLIFIERS;

DOHERTY AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 84873405902     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2012.2231421     Document Type: Article

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