Radio-frequency inverters with transmission-line input networks

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1154-1161

  Phinney, Joshua W ^a   Perreault, David J ^b   Lang, Jeffrey H ^b  

^a EXPONENT INC   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed system; Inverter; Lumped model; Transmission line

Indexed keywords

RADIO-FREQUENCY INVERTER; SOFT-SWTICHING;

CAPACITANCE; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; POWER ELECTRONICS; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 34547111550     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2007.900465     Document Type: Article

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