Analysis and elimination of hysteresis and noisy precursors in power amplifiers

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1096-1106

  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; Class E amplifier; Hysteresis; Noisy precursor; Stability; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIER OUTPUT SPECTRUM; CLASS-E AMPLIFIER; NOISY PRECURSOR; PRACTICAL CIRCUITS;

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); COMPUTER SOFTWARE; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HYSTERESIS; OSCILLATIONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STABILITY; SYNCHRONIZATION;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 33644984652     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2005.864125     Document Type: Article

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