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High efficiency power amplifiers for modern mobile communications: The load-modulation approach

Electronics (Switzerland), ISSN: 2079-9292, Vol: 6, Issue: 4
2017
  • 40
    Citations
  • 0
    Usage
  • 52
    Captures
  • 1
    Mentions
  • 0
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  • Citations
    40
    • Citation Indexes
      39
    • Patent Family Citations
      1
      • Patent Families
        1
  • Captures
    52
  • Mentions
    1
    • Blog Mentions
      1
      • Blog
        1

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Electronics, Vol. 6, Pages 96: High Efficiency Power Amplifiers for Modern Mobile Communications: The Load-Modulation Approach

Electronics, Vol. 6, Pages 96: High Efficiency Power Amplifiers for Modern Mobile Communications: The Load-Modulation Approach Electronics doi: 10.3390/electronics6040096 Authors: Chiara Ramella Anna Piacibello Roberto

Review Description

Modern mobile communication signals require power amplifiers able to maintain very high efficiency in a wide range of output power levels, which is a major issue for classical power amplifier architectures. Following the load-modulation approach, efficiency enhancement is achieved by dynamically changing the amplifier load impedance as a function of the input power. In this paper, a review of the widely-adopted Doherty power amplifier and of the other load-modulation efficiency enhancement techniques is presented. The main theoretical aspects behind each method are introduced, and the most relevant practical implementations available in recent literature are reported and discussed.

Bibliographic Details

Ramella, Chiara; Piacibello, Anna; Quaglia, Roberto; Camarchia, Vittorio; Pirola, Marco

MDPI AG

Engineering; Computer Science

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