ET Comes of Age: Envelope Tracking for Higher-Efficiency Power Amplifiers

IEEE Microwave Magazine

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 16-25

  Asbeck, Peter ^a   Popovic, Zoya ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave communication; Power amplifiers; Time varying systems; Tracking; Wireless communication

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; LONG TERM EVOLUTION (LTE); MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS; SURFACE DISCHARGES; TELEPHONE SETS; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

FOURTH GENERATION; MICROWAVE COMMUNICATIONS; MICROWAVE POWER AMPLIFIER; PEAK TO AVERAGE POWER RATIO; TIME VARYING ENVELOPE; WELL-ESTABLISHED TECHNIQUES; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 84961958943     PISSN: 15273342     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MMM.2015.2505699     Document Type: Article

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