Analysis and optimum design of a class E RF power amplifier

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1759-1768

  Hasani, Javad Yavand ^a,b   Kamarei, Mahmoud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Analytic optimization; Class E; Even harmonic; Finite dc feed; Parallel circuit; Power capability; Power efficiency

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; FOUNDRIES; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; POWER AMPLIFIERS;

ANALYTIC OPTIMIZATION; CLASS E; EVEN-HARMONIC; FINITE-DC-FEED; PARALLEL CIRCUITS; POWER CAPABILITY; POWER EFFICIENCY;

DESIGN;

EID: 53849086836     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2008.916703     Document Type: Article

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