The effects of limited drain current and on resistance on the performance of an LDMOS inverse class-E power amplifier

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 336-343

  You, Fei ^a   He, Songbai ^a   Tang, Xiaohong ^a   Deng, Xiangke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Inverse class E power amplifier (PA); LDMOS; Nonlinearity; On resistance; Quasi saturation

Indexed keywords

MOS DEVICES; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; POWER AMPLIFIERS; TRANSISTORS;

INVERSE CLASS-E POWER AMPLIFIER (PA); LDMOS; NONLINEARITY; ON RESISTANCE; QUASI-SATURATION;

DRAIN CURRENT;

EID: 60349119369     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2008.2011175     Document Type: Article

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