Enabling low-distortion varactors for adaptive transmitters

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1149-1163

  Huang, Cong ^a,b   De Vreede, Leo C N ^a,b   Sarubbi, Francesco ^b   Popadič, Miloš ^b   Buisman, Koen ^a,b   Qureshi, Jawad ^a,b   Marchetti, Mauro ^a,b   Akhnoukh, Atef ^b   Scholtes, Tom L M ^b   Larson, Lawrence E ^a,c   Nanver, Lis K ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c University of California at San Diego   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive systems; Band switching; Impedance matching; Low distortion; Tunable filters; Tuners; Varactors

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); TRANSMITTERS; TUNERS;

BAND SWITCHING; CONTROL VOLTAGE HARMONIC LOADING; LOW DISTORTION; TUNABLE FILTERS;

VARACTORS;

EID: 44049095315     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2008.921679     Document Type: Article

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