Design of class-E amplifier with MOSFET linear gate-to-drain and nonlinear drain-to-source capacitances

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 58, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2556-2565

  Wei, Xiuqin ^a   Sekiya, Hiroo ^a   Kuroiwa, Shingo ^a   Suetsugu, Tadashi ^b   Kazimierczuk, Marian K ^c  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Wright State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Class E power amplifier; class E ZVS ZDS conditions; MOSFET drain to source nonlinear parasitic capacitance; MOSFET gate to drain parasitic capacitance

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; POWER MOSFET; SPICE; ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

CIRCUIT EXPERIMENTS; CLASS E; CLASS E POWER AMPLIFIERS; GATE-TO-DRAIN CAPACITANCE; OPERATING FREQUENCY; PARASITIC CAPACITANCE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; QUANTITATIVE AGREEMENT;

CAPACITANCE;

EID: 80053566642     PISSN: 15498328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2011.2123490     Document Type: Article

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