Power losses and efficiency of Class-E power amplifier at any duty ratio

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1675-1689

  Kessler, Donald J ^a   Kazimierczuk, Marian K ^a  

^a Wright State University   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; CAPACITANCE; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC LOSSES; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC SWITCHES; MOSFET DEVICES; POWER AMPLIFIERS;

CLASS E AMPLIFIER; POWER LOSSES; ZERO DERIVATIVE SWITCHING; ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS;

EID: 4744376270     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2004.834505     Document Type: Article

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