Behavioral thermal modeling for microwave power amplifier design

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2290-2296

  Mazeau, Julie ^b   Sommet, Raphaël ^c   Caban Chastas, Daniel ^b   Gatard, Emmanuel ^c   Quéré, Raymond ^a,c   Mancuso, Yves ^b  

^a IEEE   (France)

^b THALES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIMOGES   (France)

Author keywords

Behavioral electrothermal (BET) model; Power amplifier; Reduced thermal model; Ritz vector approach; Systemlevel model; Volterra series

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ELECTROTHERMAL (BET) MODELS; REDUCED THERMAL MODELS; RITZ VECTOR APPROACH; SYSTEM LEVEL MODEL; VOLTERRA SERIES;

MICROWAVE DEVICES; NONLINEAR NETWORK ANALYSIS; THERMOELECTRIC POWER; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS; TRANSISTORS;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 36649013446     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2007.907715     Document Type: Article

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