Synthesis of lumped transmission-line analogs

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1531-1542

  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; Lumped model; Transmission line

Indexed keywords

CONVERTER WAVEFORMS; HIGH-FREQUENCY SWITCHED-MODE POWER ELECTRONICS; SHAPE CIRCUIT WAVEFORMS;

CAPACITANCE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC LINES; INDUCTANCE; LUMPED PARAMETER NETWORKS; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; RADIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS;

POWER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 34547117610     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2007.900530     Document Type: Article

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