Effect of switch duty ratio on the performance of class E amplifiers and frequency multipliers

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Fundamental Theory and Applications

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 325-335

  Albulej, Mihai ^a   Zulinski, Robert E ^a  

^a GHEORGHE ASACHI TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF IASI   (Romania)

Author keywords

Frequency conversion; Inverters; Power amplifiers; Q factor; Switching circuits

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS; FREQUENCY MULTIPLYING CIRCUITS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

SWITCH DUTY RATIO;

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032050927     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/81.669055     Document Type: Article

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