Design of variable-resistance class e inverters for load modulation

2012 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 3226-3232

  Roslaniec, Lukasz ^a   Perreault, David J ^b  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT TRANSFORMATION; CLASS E; CLASS E INVERTER; DESIGN METHODOLOGY; LOAD MODULATION; LOAD RESISTANCES; LOAD-SENSITIVE; RAPID SYNTHESIS; RESISTIVE LOADS;

ENERGY CONVERSION; EXHIBITIONS; ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

DESIGN;

EID: 84870902061     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2012.6342344     Document Type: Conference Paper

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