Efficient and linear power amplifier based on envelope elimination and restoration

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 5-9

  Vasić, Miroslav ^a   Garcia, Oscar ^a   Oliver, Jesus Angel ^a   Alou, Pedro ^a   Diaz, Daniel ^a   Cobos, Jose Antonio ^a   Gimeno, Alejandro ^b   Pardo, Jose Manuel ^b   Benavente, Cesar ^b   Ortega, Francisco Javier ^b  

^a CENTRO DE ELECTRÓNICA INDUSTRIAL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Envelope amplifier; Envelope elimination and restoration (EER); Kahns technique; Linear power amplifier (PA); Multilevel converter

Indexed keywords

CLASS B; CLASS E; CLASS-E AMPLIFIER; ENVELOPE ELIMINATION AND RESTORATIONS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGH LINEARITY; INTER-MODULATION PRODUCTS; KAHNS TECHNIQUE; LINEAR POWER AMPLIFIERS; LINEAR REGULATORS; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; PEAK POWER; POWER SUPPLY; POWER-LOSSES; SINE-WAVE; WIDE BANDWIDTH;

BANDWIDTH; EFFICIENCY; PHASE MODULATION; POWER AMPLIFIERS;

RESTORATION;

EID: 83655164713     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2011.2162005     Document Type: Article

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