The class-E/F family of ZVS switching amplifiers

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1677-1690

  Kee, Scott D ^a,b   Aoki, Ichiro ^b   Hajimiri, Ali ^a   Rutledge, David ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b Axiom Microdevices Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Class E; Class E F; Class F; Harmonic tuning; High efficiency amplifier; Switching power amplifier; Zero voltage switching (ZVS)

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC WAVEFORMS; SWITCHING NETWORKS; TRANSISTORS;

CLASS E; CLASS E-F; CLASS F; HIGH-EFFICIENCY AMPLIFIER; SWITCHING AMPLIFIERS; SWITCHING POWER AMPLIFIER; ZERO-VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0038275845     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2003.812564     Document Type: Article

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