The Transmission-Line High-Efficiency Class-E Amplifier

IEEE Microwave and Guided Wave Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 1995, Pages 290-292

  Mader, Thomas B ^a   Popović, Zoya B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MESFET DEVICES; MICROSTRIP LINES;

CLASS E AMPLIFIERS; HIGH EFFICIENCY SWITCHED MODE CIRCUITS; MICROWAVE TRANSMISSION LINES; POWER ADDED EFFICIENCY;

MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0029378999     PISSN: 10518207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/75.410401     Document Type: Article

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