Staircase-voltage metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor driver circuit for therapeutic ultrasound

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 49, Issue 7 PART 2, 2010, Pages

  Moro, Kosuke ^a   Yoshizawa, Shin ^a   Umemura, Shin Ichiro ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRIVE CIRCUITS; DRIVER CIRCUIT; HIGH-VOLTAGE PULSE GENERATOR; METAL-OXIDE-SEMICONDUCTOR FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTOR; MOS-FET; SQUARE-WAVE; THERAPEUTIC ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND SYSTEM; VOLTAGE DRIVE; VOLTAGE DRIVER;

CIRCUIT SIMULATION; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC SWITCHGEAR; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; MOSFET DEVICES; PULSE GENERATORS; SIGNAL GENERATORS; STAIRS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; ULTRASONICS;

RESONANT CIRCUITS;

EID: 77956596605     PISSN: 00214922     EISSN: 13474065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JJAP.49.07HF02     Document Type: Article

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