High efficiency power amplifier driving methods and circuits: Part I

Microwave Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 22-38

  Ortega González, Francisco Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAIN EFFICIENCY; GATE CURRENT; HIGH FREQUENCY POWER AMPLIFIERS; POWER AMPLIFIER DRIVING CIRCUITS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CAPACITANCE; HIGH FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS; MICROWAVE CIRCUITS; OPTIMIZATION; POWER CONVERTERS; TRANSISTORS; VOLTAGE DISTRIBUTION MEASUREMENT;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 2342557235     PISSN: 01926225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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