A VHF class E DC-DC converter with self-oscillating gate driver

Conference Proceedings - IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition - APEC

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 885-891

  Andersen, Toke M ^a   Christensen, Soren K ^b   Knott, Arnold ^a   Andersen, Michael A E ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b BANG AND OLUFSEN A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS AND DESIGN; CLASS E; CLASS E INVERTER; CLASS E RECTIFIER; CONVERTER TOPOLOGIES; DESIGN METHOD; GATE DRIVERS; MEASUREMENT RESULTS; PARASITIC EFFECT; POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; PROTOTYPE CONVERTER; SELF-OSCILLATING; SWITCHING LOSS; VERY HIGH FREQUENCY BANDS;

DC-DC CONVERTERS; HVDC POWER TRANSMISSION; POWER ELECTRONICS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; TOPOLOGY; ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 79955751753     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APEC.2011.5744699     Document Type: Conference Paper

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