December 2014
Intermediate to advanced
688 pages
18h 19m
English
A circuit of the Class F RF power amplifier with a second-harmonic peaking, called the
, is shown in Fig. 8.24. Figure 8.25 shows the voltage and current waveforms for this amplifier. The gate-to-source voltage waveform is rectangular.
Figure 8.24 Class
power amplifier: (a) circuit and (b) equivalent circuit.
Figure 8.25 Waveforms in the Class
RF power amplifier.
The drain current waveform is a rectangular wave given by

The rectangular drain current can be expanded into Fourier series

where
and
Figure 8.26 shows Fourier coefficients as ...
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