Switching capacities based envelope amplifier for high efficiency RF amplifiers

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 723-728

  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 E; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; ENVELOPE ELIMINATION AND RESTORATIONS; HIGH EFFICIENCY; HIGH LINEARITY; HIGHER EFFICIENCY; LINEAR POWER AMPLIFIERS; LINEAR REGULATORS; MAXIMUM POWER; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; PEAK TO AVERAGE POWER RATIO; RF AMPLIFIERS; RF TRANSMITTER; SPECTRAL COMPONENTS; TRANSMITTED SIGNAL;

POWER AMPLIFIERS; TRANSMITTERS; VOLTAGE DIVIDERS;

POWER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 77952152414     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APEC.2010.5433590     Document Type: Conference Paper

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