A multi-cell cascaded power amplifier

Conference Proceedings - IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition - APEC

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 1550-1556

  Gong, G ^a   Ertl, H ^b   Kolar, J W ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASCADED POWER AMPLIFIERS; INVERTER CELLS; RESONANT CONVERTERS;

BANDWIDTH; CASCADE CONTROL SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC LOADS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; SWITCHING; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 33749532502     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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