Comparison of two multilevel architectures for envelope amplifier

IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 283-289

  Vasic 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

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

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

POWER AMPLIFIERS; TRANSMITTERS;

INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS;

EID: 77951601307     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2009.5414936     Document Type: Conference Paper

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