Design and Analysis of a 44-GHz MMIC Low-Loss Built-in Linearizer for High-Linearity Medium Power Amplifiers

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2487-2496

  Tsai, Jeng Han ^a   Chang, Hong Yeh ^a   Wu, Pei Si ^a   Lee, Yi Lin ^a   Huang, Tian Wei ^a   Wang, Huei ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Linearizer; millimeter wave (MMW); monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC); nonlinear; power amplifier (PA)

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008010225     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2006.875800     Document Type: Article

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