A Highly Extended High-Efficiency Range Class-F-C Doherty Power Amplifier

This paper presents a new extended high-efficiency-range Doherty power amplifier (DPA) with a main and only a single auxiliary amplifier. In order to extend the output high-efficiency range with a ...

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