High-voltage wideband switching amplifier for capacitive loads

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Olsson, John C. (John Carl), 1979-
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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Barry Vercoe and J. Joseph Pompei.
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Abstract
Why is it that arbitrarily driving imaginary loads has always required lots of power? In this thesis, a highly efficient switching amplifier class is developed that is capable of delivering energy to, as well as taking energy from, a capacitive load in a finely controllable, dissipationless manner. Several control schemes were investigated, and a simple version of the amplifier was then built and tested using both synchronous and asynchronous controllers. The amplifier proved to be capable of driving high voltage, high frequency signals across a capacitive transducer with extremely low total power consumption and very low distortion.
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Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2001.
 
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 110-111).
 
Date issued
2001
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/60757
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Keywords
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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