Global stability analysis and stabilization of a class-E/F amplifier with a distributed active transformer

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 3712-3722

  Jeon, Sanggeun ^a,b   Suárez, Almudena ^a,c   Rutledge, David B ^a,b,d  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bifurcation; Chaos; Distributed active transformer (DAT); Hysteresis; Stability analysis; Stabilization; Switching amplifiers

Indexed keywords

BIAS VOLTAGE; GLOBAL STABILITY ANALYSIS; SPURIOUS OSCILLATIONS;

CHAOS THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; HYSTERESIS; OSCILLATIONS; STABILITY;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 29544446045     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2005.856083     Document Type: Article

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