Very-High-Frequency Resonant Boost Converters

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1654-1665

  Anderson, David I ^c   Sagneri, Anthony D ^a   Perreault, David J ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Class E inverter; class F inverter; class F power amplifier; harmonic peaking; resonant boost converter; resonant dc dc converter; resonant gate drive; resonant rectifier; self oscillating gate drive; very high frequency (VHF) integrated power converter

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008020492     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: 19410107     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2009.2016098     Document Type: Article

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