Improved design technique of a broadband class-E power amplifier at 2GHz

35th European Microwave Conference 2005 - Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 453-456

  Qin, Y ^a   Gao, S ^a   Butterworth, P ^a   Korolkiewicz, E ^a   Sambell, A ^a  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BROADBAND NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LOGIC DESIGN; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; TRANSISTORS;

CIRCUIT PARAMETERS; POWER ADDED EFFICIENCY (PAE);

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 33644783858     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EUMC.2005.1608891     Document Type: Conference Paper

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