Exact Analysis of Class E Tuned Power Amplifier at any Q and Switch Duty Cycle

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1987, Pages 149-159

  Kazimierczuk, Marian K ^a   Puczko, Krzysztof ^b  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS - LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS;

AMPLIFIERS, POWER TYPE;

EID: 0023292275     PISSN: 00984094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCS.1987.1086114     Document Type: Article

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