Analysis and Design of a Generalized Class E Tuned Power Amplifier

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 1989, Pages 1068-1079

  Avratoglou, Charalampos P ^a   Voulgaris, Nicholas C ^a   Ioannidou, Fotini I ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC NETWORKS, ACTIVE--EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC WAVEFORMS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES--POLYNOMIALS; RADIO TRANSMITTERS;

CLASS E TUNED POWER AMPLIFIER; DIRECT SEARCH OPTIMIZATION;

AMPLIFIERS, POWER TYPE;

EID: 0024715387     PISSN: 00984094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/31.192415     Document Type: Article

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