Multilevel power supply for high efficiency RF amplifiers

Conference Proceedings - IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition - APEC

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1233-1238

  Vasi M ^a   Garcia, O ^a   Oliver, J A ^a   Alou, P ^a   Diaz, D ^a   Cobos, J A ^a  

^a CENTRO DE ELECTRÓNICA INDUSTRIAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AVERAGE VALUES; CLASS A; CLASS-D; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; ENVELOPE ELIMINATION AND RESTORATIONS; HIGH EFFICIENCY; HIGH LINEARITY; HIGHER EFFICIENCY; LINEAR POWER AMPLIFIERS; LINEAR REGULATORS; MAXIMAL SPECTRAL COMPONENTS; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; PEAK TO AVERAGE POWER RATIO; POWER SUPPLY; RF AMPLIFIERS; RF TRANSMITTER; TRANSMITTED SIGNAL; VOLTAGE LEVELS;

POWER ELECTRONICS;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 65949097942     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APEC.2009.4802821     Document Type: Conference Paper

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