Design procedure of Class-E amplifier for off-nominal operation at 50% duty ratio

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1468-1476

  Suetsugu, Tadashi ^a   Kazimierczuk, Marian K ^b  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Wright State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Class E amplifier; High efficiency; Linear shunt capacitance; Off nominal operation; Zero voltage switching (ZVS)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC SWITCHES; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS;

CLASS-E AMPLIFIER; LINEAR SHUNT CAPACITANCE; OFF-NOMINAL OPERATION; ZERO-VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

AUDIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 33746054526     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2006.875181     Document Type: Article

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