Design of High-Efficiency RF Class-D Power Amplifier

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 297-308

  El Hamamsy, Sayed Am ^a  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; CAPACITANCE; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC FILTERS; ELECTRIC LOSSES; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS; FREQUENCY STABILITY; GATES (TRANSISTOR); RADIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

CLASS D RADIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; DESIGN EQUATIONS; SWITCHING LOSSES;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0028423232     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: 19410107     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/63.311263     Document Type: Article

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