The ripple cancellation technique applied to a synchronous buck converter to achieve a very high bandwidth and very high efficiency envelope amplifier

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2892-2902

  Diaz, Daniel ^a   Garcia, Oscar ^a   Oliver, Jesus Angel ^a   Alou, Pedro ^a   Pavlovic, Zoran ^a   Cobos, Jose Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Envelope amplifier (EA); envelope elimination and restoration (EER); high bandwidth; ripple cancellation circuit; synchronous buck converter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893908626     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2013.2272421     Document Type: Article

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