Band separation in linear-assisted switching power amplifiers for accurate wide-bandwidth envelope tracking

2014 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1113-1118

  Li, Dongxue ^a   Zhang, Yuanzhe ^a   Rodríguez, Miguel ^a   Maksimović, Dragan ^a  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DC-DC CONVERTERS; EFFICIENCY; GALLIUM NITRIDE; III-V SEMICONDUCTORS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; RADIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; SWITCHING FREQUENCY;

ACCURATE TRACKING; ENVELOPE TRACKING; LINEAR AMPLIFIERS; RADIO FREQUENCY POWER; SWITCHING AMPLIFIERS; SWITCHING CONVERTER; SWITCHING POWER AMPLIFIERS; SYNCHRONOUS BUCK CONVERTER;

HIGH FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 84934292431     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2014.6953524     Document Type: Conference Paper

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