Effect of bias condition and input harmonic termination on high efficiency inverse class-F amplifiers

2001 31st European Microwave Conference, EuMC 2001

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Goto, Seiki ^a   Kunii, Tetsuo ^a   Ohta, Akira ^a   Inoue, Akira ^a   Hosokawa, Yoshihiro ^b   Hattori, Ryo ^a   Mitsui, Yasuo ^a  

^a MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b Miyoshi Electronics Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

BIAS CONDITIONS; CIRCUIT DESIGNS; HARMONIC TERMINATION; HIGH IMPEDANCE; INPUT AND OUTPUTS; INVERSE CLASS F; PHASE RELATIONSHIPS; QUIESCENT CURRENTS;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 84897474959     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EUMA.2001.339197     Document Type: Conference Paper

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