High-efficiency Class E, EF2, and E/F3 inverters

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1584-1593

  Kaczmarczyk, Zbigniew ^a  

^a SILESIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

DC AC power conversion; High frequency (HF) amplifiers; Inverters; Resonant power conversion; Switching conversion

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; HIGH FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; OPTIMIZATION; POWER CONVERTERS; POWER GENERATION; TRANSISTORS;

RESONANT POWER CONVERSION; SWITCHING CONVERSION; ZERO-VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 33750142703     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2006.882011     Document Type: Article

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