A design technique for concurrent dual-band harmonic tuned power amplifier

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2545-2555

  Colantonio, Paolo ^a   Giannini, Franco ^a   Giofrè, Rocco ^a   Piazzon, Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dual band; Harmonic matching; High efficiency; Impedance buffer (IB); Power amplifier (PA)

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM NITRIDE; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM;

CONTINUOUS WAVES; DESIGN TECHNIQUES; DRAIN EFFICIENCIES; DUAL BAND; GAN HEMT; GATE PERIPHERIES; HARMONIC MATCHING; HIGH EFFICIENCY; IMPEDANCE BUFFER (IB); MATCHING NETWORKS; MEASUREMENT RESULTS; MULTI FREQUENCIES; MULTIPLEXING SIGNALS; NETWORK DESIGNS; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCIES; OUTPUT POWERS; SINGLE MODES;

DESIGN;

EID: 55949128300     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2008.2004897     Document Type: Article

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