Concurrent Dual-Band Class-F Load Coupling Network for Applications at 1.7 and 2.14 GHz

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 259-263

  Negra, Renato ^a   Bensmida, Souheil ^a   Ghannouchi, Fadhel M ^a   Sadeve, Alexandre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

Class F; cognitive radio; dual band power ampli; fiers; GaAs MESFETs; high efficiency; microwave amplifiers

Indexed keywords

COUPLED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; MESFET DEVICES; MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

COGNITIVE RADIO; DUAL-BAND POWER AMPLIFIERS; HIGH EFFICIENCY;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 42149157652     PISSN: 15497747     EISSN: 15583791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2008.918993     Document Type: Article

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