Off-nominal operation of class-E amplifier at any duty ratio

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1389-1397

  Suetsugu, Tadashi ^a   Kazimierczuk, Marian K ^b  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Wright State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Any duty ratio; Class E amplifier; High efficiency; Linear shunt capacitance; Suboptimum operation; Zero voltage switching (ZVS)

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; SPICE; ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

CLASS-E AMPLIFIER; LINEAR SHUNT CAPACITANCE; SUBOPTIMUM OPERATION;

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 34250825911     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2007.895368     Document Type: Article

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