A high-frequency resonant inverter topology with low-voltage stress

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1759-1771

  Rivas, Juan M ^a   Han, Yehui ^a   Leitermann, Olivia ^a   Sagneri, Anthony D ^a   Perreault, David J ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Class inverter; Class E inverter; Class F power amplifier; Harmonic peaking; Radio frequency inverter; Very high frequency; VHF power converter

Indexed keywords

HIGH-FREQUENCY (HF); LOW-VOLTAGE (LV); RESONANT INVERTERS;

EID: 47249135506     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2008.924616     Document Type: Article

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