Ferroelectric capacitor based adaptive matching network for RF amplifier

Integrated Ferroelectrics

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 60-66

  Zhang, Yulan ^a   Kalkur, T S ^a   Mulcahy, Thomas ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Colorado Springs   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive matching network; ferroelectric; RF amplifier; thin film barium strontium titanate (BST)

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MATCHING NETWORK; BIAS VARIATION; CLASS A; FERROELECTRIC; FERROELECTRIC CAPACITORS; MAXIMUM OUTPUT POWER; POWER LEVELS; RF AMPLIFIERS; TIO; TUNABLE AMPLIFIERS;

BARIUM; BARIUM STRONTIUM TITANATE; CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC LOAD FORECASTING; FERROELECTRIC DEVICES; FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; FERROELECTRICITY; FREQUENCY BANDS; STRONTIUM; STRONTIUM TITANATES;

BARIUM TITANATE;

EID: 78650858484     PISSN: 10584587     EISSN: 16078489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10584587.2009.484691     Document Type: Conference Paper

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