Power combining techniques into unbalanced loads for Class-E and inverse Class-E amplifiers

IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 529-537

  Thian, M ^a   Fusco, V ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION;

ADVANCED DESIGN SYSTEMS; AGILENT; CLASS-E; CLASS-E AMPLIFIERS; CONSTANT AMPLITUDES; HIGH FREQUENCIES; LINEAR AMPLIFICATION USING NON LINEAR COMPONENTS; OUTPUT IMPEDANCE; PHASE SIGNALS; POWER APPLICATIONS; POWER COMBINING; SINGLE-STAGE; THREE-BRANCH; UNBALANCED LOADS;

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 50249142868     PISSN: 17518725     EISSN: 17518733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-map:20070264     Document Type: Article

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