A Second Harmonic Class-F Power Amplifier in Standard CMOS Technology

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1216-1220

  Fortes, Fernando ^a   do Rosario, Maria Joao ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE TELECOMUNICAÇÕES   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Class F; CMOS; power amplifier

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008045093     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.925529     Document Type: Article

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