Hybrid switching amplifier using a novel two-quadrant wideband buffer for dynamic power supply applications

PESC Record - IEEE Annual Power Electronics Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 546-551

  Kwak, Tae Woo ^a   Lee, Min Chul ^a   Yuk, Young Sub ^a   Lee, Kang Ho ^a   Park, Hyun Hee ^a   Kim, Chul ^a   Cho, Gyu Hyeong ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; FIBER LASERS; OPTICAL DESIGN; POWER ELECTRONICS; SWITCHING;

CMOS PROCESSING; CONTROLLED SWITCHING; DRIVING CAPABILITY; DYNAMIC POWER; EQUIVALENT IMPEDANCE; HIGH CURRENTS; HIGH LINEARITY; HIGH SPEEDS; HIGH-EFFICIENCY; HYBRID AMPLIFIERS; HYBRID SWITCHING; LINEAR AMPLIFIERS; LOAD CURRENTS; LOW OUTPUT IMPEDANCE; LOW POWERS; MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY; MAXIMUM OUTPUT POWER; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; OUTPUT-VOLTAGE RANGES; SWITCHING LOSSES; THICK-OXIDE DEVICES; VOLTAGE SOURCES; WIDE BANDS;

BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 52349104348     PISSN: 02759306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PESC.2008.4591986     Document Type: Conference Paper

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