An RF-DC converter with wide-dynamic-range input matching for power recovery applications

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 336-340

  Abdelhalem, Sherif H ^a   Gudem, Prasad S ^b   Larson, Lawrence E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b QUALCOMM INC   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Class E rectifier; hybrid transformer duplexer; impedance matching; power recycling; RF dc converter

Indexed keywords

DC TRANSFORMERS; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC);

BATTERY VOLTAGES; CLASS E RECTIFIER; DC CONVERTER; DUPLEXERS; LOADING CONDITION; POWER-RECYCLING; SIMULATIONS AND MEASUREMENTS; WIDE DYNAMIC RANGE;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 84879357572     PISSN: 15497747     EISSN: 15583791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2013.2258261     Document Type: Article

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