Envelope amplifier based on switching capacitors for high-efficiency RF amplifiers

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1359-1368

  Vasić, Miroslav ^a   García, Oscar ^a   Oliver, Jesús Á ^a   Alou, Pedro ^a   Diaz, Daniel ^a   Prieto, Roberto ^a   Cobos, José A ^a  

^a CENTRO DE ELECTRÓNICA INDUSTRIAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Envelope amplifier; envelope estimation and restoration (EER); Kahns technique; multilevel converter; switching capacitors

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE VALUES; CLASS A; CLASS E; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; ENVELOPE ELIMINATION AND RESTORATIONS; ENVELOPE ESTIMATION; HIGH LINEARITY; HIGHER EFFICIENCY; KAHNS TECHNIQUE; LINEAR POWER AMPLIFIERS; LINEAR REGULATORS; MAXIMUM POWER; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; PEAK TO AVERAGE POWER RATIO; RF AMPLIFIERS; RF TRANSMITTER; SPECTRAL COMPONENTS; SWITCHING CAPACITORS; TRANSMITTED SIGNAL;

CAPACITORS; PHASE MODULATION; POWER AMPLIFIERS; TRANSMITTERS; VOLTAGE DIVIDERS;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84856827324     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2011.2163646     Document Type: Article

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