Rigorous, HB-based nonlinear stability analysis of multi-device power amplifier

European Microwave Week 2010: Connecting the World, EuMIC 2010 - Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 90-93

  Cappelluti, Federica ^a   Traversa, Fabio L ^b   Bonani, Fabrizio ^a   Guerrieri, Simona Donati ^a   Ghione, Giovanni ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-STABILITY; CLASS B; CLASS-F; INPUT-OUTPUT; LARGE SIGNAL STABILITY; NONLINEAR AMPLIFIER; NONLINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; SMALL SIGNAL; SMALL SIGNAL STABILITY; STABILITY ANALYSIS;

POWER AMPLIFIERS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SYSTEM STABILITY;

LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 78649543742     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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