Radio-frequency inverters with transmission-line input networks

PESC Record - IEEE Annual Power Electronics Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  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

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAIN VOLTAGE; LUMPED-NETWORK APPROXIMATION; RADIO-FREQUENCY INVERTERS; TRANSMISSION-LINE INPUT NETWORKS;

DRAIN CURRENT; ELECTRIC LINES; LADDER NETWORKS; LUMPED PARAMETER NETWORKS; SQUARE WAVE GENERATORS; SWITCHING FREQUENCY;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 42449090621     PISSN: 02759306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PESC.2006.1712260     Document Type: Conference Paper

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