Tuning class e inverters applied in inductive links using saturable reactors

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2969-2978

  Aldhaher, Samer ^a   Luk, Patrick Chi Kwong ^a   Whidborne, James F ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coupling circuits; inductive power transmission; resonant inverters; tunable circuits and devices

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893974885     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2013.2272764     Document Type: Article

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