The Infeasibility of a Zero-Current Switching Class E Amplifier

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1990, Pages 152-154

  Herman, Kelly J ^a   Zulinski, Robert E ^a  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC NETWORKS, SWITCHING--EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS--LAPLACE TRANSFORMS;

CLASS-E AMPLIFIER; FOURIER INTEGRALS; SHUNT CAPACITANCE; ZERO-CURRENT SWITCHING;

AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0025210186     PISSN: 00984094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/31.45707     Document Type: Article

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