A 60MHz bandwidth high efficiency X-band envelope tracking power amplifier

Technical Digest - IEEE Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Symposium, CSIC

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Theilmann, Paul T ^a   Yan, Jonmei J ^a   Vu, Cuong ^a   Moon, Jeong Sun ^b   Moyer, Harris P ^b   Kimball, Donald F ^a  

^a MaXentric   (United States)

^b Hughes Aircraft Co   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE OUTPUT POWER; DRAIN EFFICIENCY; ENVELOPE TRACKING; ENVELOPE TRACKING POWER AMPLIFIERS; MODULATED SIGNAL; MODULATION BANDWIDTH; RESISTIVE LOADS; SINGLE-CHIP;

BANDWIDTH; EFFICIENCY; GALLIUM ARSENIDE; GALLIUM NITRIDE; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM; SILICON ALLOYS;

MODULATORS;

EID: 84892524491     PISSN: 15508781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSICS.2013.6659194     Document Type: Conference Paper

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