High speed, high analog bandwidth buck converter using GaN HEMTs for envelope tracking power amplifier applications

WiSNet 2013 - Proceedings: 2013 IEEE Topical Conference on Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks - 2013 IEEE Radio and Wireless Week, RWW 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 13-15

  Shinjo, Shintaro ^a,b   Hong, Young Pyo ^a   Gheidi, Hamed ^a   Kimball, Donald F ^a   Asbeck, Peter M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Buck converter; envelope tracking (ET); GaN HEMTs; pulsewidth modulation (PWM)

Indexed keywords

BUCK CONVERTERS; ENVELOPE AMPLIFIERS; ENVELOPE TRACKING; ENVELOPE TRACKING POWER AMPLIFIERS; GAN HEMTS; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; POWER SUPPLY VOLTAGE; SWITCHING RATES;

GALLIUM NITRIDE; POWER AMPLIFIERS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

DC-DC CONVERTERS;

EID: 84875972754     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WiSNet.2013.6488618     Document Type: Conference Paper

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