Three-level buck converter for envelope tracking applications

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 549-552

  Yousefzadeh, Vahid ^a   Alarcón, Eduard ^b   Maksimovíc, Dragan ^a  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Envelope elimination and restoration (EER); Radio frequency power amplifier (RFPA); Three level buck converter

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ELECTRIC LOSSES; POWER AMPLIFIERS; POWER ELECTRONICS;

ENVELOPE ELIMINATION AND RESTORATION (EER); RADIO FREQUENCY POWER AMPLIFIER (RFPA); THREE-LEVEL BUCK CONVERTER;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 33644912016     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2005.869728     Document Type: Article

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