An approach to harmonic load- and source-pull measurements for high-efficiency PA design

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 52, Issue 1 I, 2004, Pages 191-198

  Colantonio, Paolo ^a   Giannini, Franco ^a   Limiti, Ernesto ^a   Teppati, Valeria ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Harmonic tuning; High efficiency; Load pull; Power amplifiers (PAs)

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT TESTING; MESFET DEVICES; OPTIMIZATION; SCATTERING PARAMETERS; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; TUNING;

ACTIVE LOAD-SOURCE-PULL TEST-BENCH; HARMONIC TUNING;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 1242308440     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2003.821276     Document Type: Article

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