Nonlinear design technique for high-power switching-mode oscillators

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 3630-3639

  Jeon, Sanggeun ^a,b   Suárez, Almudena ^a,c   Rutledge, David B ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Class E tuning; High efficiency oscillator; Non linear optimization; Oscillation stability; Startup criterion

Indexed keywords

CLASS-E TUNING; HIGH-EFFICIENCY OSCILLATORS; NON-LINEAR OPTIMIZATION; OSCILLATION STABILITY; STARTUP CRITERION;

OPTIMIZATION; OSCILLATIONS; POLES AND ZEROS; SWITCHING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 33749846383     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2006.882406     Document Type: Article

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