Waveform measurement technique and its applications to optimum loading studies on power FETS

ICMMT 2000 - 2000 2nd International Conference on Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 666-669

  Wei, C J ^a   Tkachenko, Y A ^a   Bartle, D ^a  

^a Alpha Industries Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; POWER AMPLIFIERS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

HARMONIC LOADING; LOAD PULL SYSTEMS; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; POWER TRANSISTORS; POWER-ADDED EFFICIENCY; PROBING TECHNIQUES; SIMULATED RESULTS; WAVEFORM MEASUREMENT;

MILLIMETER WAVES;

EID: 0007865168     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMMT.2000.895775     Document Type: Conference Paper

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