Exploring figures of merit associated with the suboptimum operation of class-E power amplifiers

IET Circuits, Devices and Systems

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 401-407

  Mury, T ^a   Fusco, V ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

AMPLIFIER EFFICIENCY; ARBITRARY DUTY CYCLE; PEAK SWITCH VOLTAGE;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 38649106757     PISSN: 1751858X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-cds:20070082     Document Type: Article

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