A CMOS dual-switching power-supply modulator with 8% efficiency improvement for 20MHz LTE Envelope Tracking RF power amplifiers

Digest of Technical Papers - IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference

Volumn 56, Issue , 2013, Pages 366-367

  Hassan, Muhammad ^a   Asbeck, Peter M ^a   Larson, Lawrence E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH EXPANSIONS; EFFICIENCY ENHANCEMENT TECHNIQUE; EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT; ENVELOPE TRACKING; PEAK TO AVERAGE POWER RATIO; POWER REQUIREMENT; RF POWER AMPLIFIERS; WIDE BANDWIDTH;

BANDWIDTH; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

MODULATORS;

EID: 84876593132     PISSN: 01936530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSCC.2013.6487772     Document Type: Conference Paper

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