Active harmonic load-pull system for characterizing highly mismatched high power transistors

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 1311-1314

  Aboush, Zaid ^a   Lees, Jonathan ^a   Benedikt, Johannes ^a   Tasker, Paul ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Device characterization; Impedance matching; Impedance transformers; Load pull; Microwave and RF power amplifiers; Voltage current waveforms

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC LOSSES; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); POWER AMPLIFIERS; POWER ELECTRONICS; TRANSISTORS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

DEVICE CHARACTERIZATION; IMPEDANCE TRANSFORMERS; RF POWER AMPLIFIERS; VOLTAGE/CURRENT WAVEFORMS;

ELECTRIC LOADS;

EID: 33749259831     PISSN: 0149645X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MWSYM.2005.1516920     Document Type: Conference Paper

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