Power amplifier PAE and ruggedness optimization by second-harmonic control

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1575-1583

  Spirito, Marco ^a   De Vreede, Leo C N ^a   Nanver, Lis K ^a   Weber, Stephan ^b,c   Burghartz, Joachim N ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG   (Germany)

^c CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential output stages; Power added efficiency (PAE); Ruggedness; Second harmonic termination

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION;

SECOND-HARMONIC TERMINATION;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0042781716     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2003.815918     Document Type: Conference Paper

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