Analytical design equations for class-E power amplifiers

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2706-2717

  Acar, Mustafa ^a   Annema, Anne Johan ^a   Nauta, Bram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Analog circuits; Circuit analysis; Circuit theory; Nonlinear circuits; Power amplifiers

Indexed keywords

ANALOG CIRCUITS; CIRCUIT THEORY; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; INDUCTANCE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ANALYTICAL DESIGN; CIRCUIT PARAMETER; CLASS E POWER AMPLIFIERS; DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION; DESIGN EQUATION; FINITE-DC-FEED; NONITERATIVE PROCEDURES; NONLINEAR CIRCUIT;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 54049111923     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2007.910544     Document Type: Article

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