Voltage Clamped Class-E Amplifier with Zener Diode

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

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1347-1349

  Suetsugu, Tadashi ^a,b   Kazimierczuk, Marian K ^a  

^a Wright State University   (United States)

^b FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Clamped peak switch voltage; Class E amplifier; High efficiency; Resonant power supply; Switching amplifier; Zener diode

Indexed keywords

RESONANT CIRCUITS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; VOLTAGE DIVIDERS;

RESONANT POWER SUPPLIES;

ZENER DIODES;

EID: 0142165157     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2003.817757     Document Type: Article

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