High-efficiency 7 GHz doherty GaN MMIC power amplifiers for microwave backhaul radio links

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 3592-3595

  Camarchia, Vittorio ^a   Rubio, Jorge Jiulian Moreno ^b   Pirola, Marco ^a   Quaglia, Roberto ^a   Colantonio, Paolo ^c   Giannini, Franco ^c   Giofre, Rocco ^c   Piazzon, Luca ^c   Emanuelsson, Thomas ^d   Wegeland, Tobias ^d  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSIDAD PEDAGÓGICA Y TECNOLÓGICA DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^d Ericsson Microwave Systems AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Backhaul; Doherty power amplifier; Gallium nitride (gan); High efficiency; Monolithic microwave integrated circuit (mmic)

Indexed keywords

BACKHAUL; DOHERTY POWER AMPLIFIER; FRACTIONAL BANDWIDTHS; GALLIUM NITRIDES (GAN); MICROWAVE BACKHAULS; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS (MMIC); MONOLITHIC TECHNOLOGIES; OUTPUT POWER BACK OFFS;

BANDWIDTH; DOHERTY AMPLIFIERS; GALLIUM NITRIDE; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; RADIO LINKS;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84884812311     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2013.2274669     Document Type: Article

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