Design procedure for lossless voltage-clamped class E amplifier with a transformer and a diode

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 56-64

  Suetsugu, Tadashi ^a   Kazimierczuk, Marian K ^b  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Wright State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Class E amplifier; Design procedure; High efficiency; Power amplifier; Switch peak voltage clamp; Switching mode; Zero voltage switching (ZVS)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIODES; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CLASS E AMPLIFIERS; SWITCH PEAK VOLTAGE CLAMP; SWITCHING MODE; ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 12744268207     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2004.839837     Document Type: Article

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