Voltage-clamped class e amplifier with transmission-line transformer

Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 712-715

  Suetsugu, Tadashi ^a   Kazimierczuk, Marian ^b  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Wright State University   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CLASS-E AMPLIFIER; LEAKAGE INDUCTANCE; LOSSLESS; PEAK VOLTAGE; SWITCH VOLTAGE; TRANSMISSION LINE TRANSFORMER; VOLTAGE CLAMP; VOLTAGE CLAMPING;

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EID: 33947391129     PISSN: 02714310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2005.1464687     Document Type: Conference Paper

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