Design of class E power amplifier with nonlinear parasitic output capacitance

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 114-119

  Alinikula, Petted ^a   Choi, Kevin ^a   Long, Stephen I ^b  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; MOS DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS;

CLASS E AMPLIFIER; LINEAR CAPACITOR; NONLINEAR OUTPUT CAPACITOR;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0033077643     PISSN: 10577130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/82.752911     Document Type: Article

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