Three-level buck converter for envelope tracking in RF power amplifiers

Conference Proceedings - IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition - APEC

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages 1588-1594

  Yousefzadeh, Vahid ^a   Alarcon, Eduard ^b   Maksimović, Dragan ^a  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT TRACKING; MULTICARRIER MODULATION; POWER AMPLIFIERS; RADIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS;

BATTERY OPERATED SYSTEMS; BUCK CONVERTERS; ENVELOPE ELIMINATION AND RESTORATION (EER); RF POWER AMPLIFIERS (RFPA);

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 33644887642     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APEC.2005.1453248     Document Type: Conference Paper

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