Investigation of class E amplifier with nonlinear capacitance for any output Q and finite dc-feed inductance
Hiroo Sekiya, Yoji Arifuku, Hiroyuki Hase, Jianming Lu, and Takashi Yahagi
IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences, vol.E89–A, no.4, pp.873-881, Apr., 2006. [pdf document]

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This paper investigates the design curves of class E amplifier with nonlinear capacitance for any output Q and finite dc-feed inductance. The important results are; 1) the capacitance nonlinearity strongly affects the design parameters for low Q, 2) the value of dc-feed inductance is hardly affected by the capacitance nonlinearity, and 3) the input voltage is an important parameter to design class E amplifier with nonlinear capacitance. By carrying out PSpice simulations, we show that the simulated results agree with the desired ones quantitatively. It is expected that the design curves in this paper are useful guidelines for the design of class E amplifier with nonlinear capacitance.