Design of high-efficiency current-mode class-D amplifiers for wireless handsets

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 144-150

  Hung, Tsai Pi ^a   Metzger, Andre G ^a   Zampardi, Peter J ^b   Iwamoto, Masaya ^c   Asbeck, Peter M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS INC   (United States)

^c AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Bond wire inductor; Class D; High efficiency; Power amplifiers

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; ELECTRIC INDUCTORS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; RESONATORS; TOPOLOGY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BOND-WIRE INDUCTORS; CLASS-D; HIGH EFFICIENCY; ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 12344321891     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2004.839327     Document Type: Conference Paper

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