An X/K-band class-E high-efficiency frequency doubler

2001 31st European Microwave Conference, EuMC 2001

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Weiss, Manoja D ^a   Popovic, Zoya ^b  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Class E; Frequency doublers; High efficiency

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DOUBLERS;

CLASS E; CONVERSION GAIN; DEVICE PARAMETERS; DRAIN EFFICIENCY; HIGH-EFFICIENCY; OUTPUT POWER; OVERALL EFFICIENCY; SWITCHING MODES;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84897554090     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EUMA.2001.339006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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