Multilevel power supply for high-efficiency RF amplifiers

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1078-1089

  Vasić, Miroslav ^a   García, Oscar ^a   Oliver, Jesús Ángel ^a   Alou, Pedro ^a   Díaz, Daniel ^a   Cobos, José Antonio ^a  

^a CENTRO DE ELECTRÓNICA INDUSTRIAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Envelope amplifier; Envelope estimation and restoration (EER); Kahn's technique; Multilevel converter

Indexed keywords

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

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; POWER AMPLIFIERS;

RESTORATION;

EID: 77951481330     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2009.2033186     Document Type: Article

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