Source Second-Harmonic Control for High Efficiency Power Amplifiers

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 1995, Pages 2952-2957

  Maeda, Masahiro ^a   Masato, Hiroyuki ^a   Takehara, Hiroyasu ^a   Nakamura, Morio ^a   Morimoto, Shigeru ^a   Fujimoto, Hiromasa ^a   Ota, Yorito ^a   Ishikawa, Osamu ^a  

^a PANASONIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC VARIABLES CONTROL; GATES (TRANSISTOR); ION IMPLANTATION; MESFET DEVICES; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

HARMONIC BALANCE SIMULATION; LINEAR AMPLIFIER; MATCHING CIRCUITS; POWER ADDED EFFICIENCY; SECOND HARMONIC CONTROL;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0029484323     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.475660     Document Type: Article

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