Novel voltage limiting concept for avalanche breakdown protection

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1842-1845

  Ruijs, Lennart ^a   Van Bezooijen, André ^b   Mahmoudi, Reza ^a   Van Roermund, Arthur H M ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b NXP SEMICONDUCTORS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptive control; Avalanche breakdown; Overvoltage protection; Peak detectors; Power amplifiers

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DETECTORS; OVERVOLTAGE PROTECTION; POWER AMPLIFIERS;

AVALANCHE BREAKDOWN; AVALANCHE CURRENT; PEAK DETECTORS; POWER TRANSISTOR;

ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN;

EID: 34250319369     PISSN: 0149645X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MWSYM.2006.249754     Document Type: Conference Paper

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