Three-level cell topology for a multilevel power supply to achieve high efficiency envelope amplifier

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 59, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2147-2160

  Díaz, Daniel ^a   Vasic, Miroslav ^a   García, Óscar ^a   Oliver, Jesús A ^a   Alou, Pedro ^a   Prieto, Roberto ^a   Cobos, José A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Envelope amplifier; envelope elimination and restoration (EER); Kahn's technique; multilevel converter; RF power amplifiers; switching capacitors

Indexed keywords

CYTOLOGY; EFFICIENCY; POWER AMPLIFIERS; POWER CONVERTERS; RESTORATION; TOPOLOGY;

ENVELOPE AMPLIFIERS; ENVELOPE ELIMINATION AND RESTORATIONS; KAHN'S TECHNIQUE; MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; RF POWER AMPLIFIERS; SWITCHING CAPACITORS;

CELLS;

EID: 84865687336     PISSN: 15498328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2012.2185307     Document Type: Article

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