High-efficiency Class-A power amplifiers with a dual-bias-control scheme

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1426-1432

  Yang, Kyounghoon ^a,b   Haddad, George I ^a,b   East, Jack R ^a,b  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS;

BIAS CONTROL SCHEMES;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0032672650     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.780390     Document Type: Article

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