Linearity of X-band class-E power amplifiers in EER operation

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 53, Issue 3 II, 2005, Pages 1096-1102

  Wang, Narisi ^a   Peng, Xinli ^b   Yousefzadeh, Vahid ^a   Maksimović, Dragan ^a   Pajić, Srdjan ^a   Popović, Zoya ^a  

^a University of Colorado   (United States)

^b MAXIM INTEGRATED PRODUCTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Class E; Efficiency; Envelope elimination and restoration (EER); Linearity; Power amplifier (PA)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC SWITCHES; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; GATES (TRANSISTOR); LINEAR SYSTEMS; MODULATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SIGNAL THEORY; TRANSISTORS;

CLASS-E; ENVELOP ELIMINATION AND RESTORATION (EER); GATE ARRAYS; LINEARITY;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 15844373764     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2005.843500     Document Type: Article

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