Class C-E High-Efficiency Tuned Power Amplifier

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1989, Pages 421-428

  Kazimierczuk, Marian K ^a   Tabisz, Wojciech A ^b  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC NETWORKS--EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC WAVEFORMS; TRANSISTORS;

CLASS C-E TUNED POWER AMPLIFIER;

AMPLIFIERS, POWER TYPE;

EID: 0024629547     PISSN: 00984094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/31.17589     Document Type: Article

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