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High-efficiency silicon-based envelope-tracking power amplifier design with envelope shaping for broadband wireless applications

Wu et al., 2013

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276587517451627730
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Wu R
Liu Y
Lopez J
Schecht C
Li Y
Lie D
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IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

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This paper presents a highly efficient silicon-based envelope-tracking power amplifier (ET- PA) for broadband wireless applications. A pseudo-differential power amplifier (PA) is designed using two integrated SiGe power cells fabricated in a 0.35-μm SiGe BiCMOS …
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