Improvement in Performance of Power Amplifiers by Defected Ground Structure

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E87-C, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 52-59

  Lim, Jong Sik ^a   Jeong, Yong Chae ^b   Ahn, Dal ^c   Nam, Sangwook ^d  

^a Korea Intellectual Property Office   (South Korea)

^b Chonbuk National University   (South Korea)

^c Soonchunhyang University   (South Korea)

^d Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Defected ground structure; DGS; Harmonic rejection; Harmonic tuning; Power amplifiers

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ESTIMATION; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); INTERMODULATION; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; TUNING; BIAS CURRENTS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; INTERMODULATION DISTORTION;

DEFECTED GROUND STRUCTURES (DGS); HARMONIC REJECTION; HARMONIC TUNING; DEFECTED GROUND STRUCTURE; NONLINEAR TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0842331834     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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