A General Equivalent Circuit Model for Phoenix Cells

This communication proposes a general equivalent circuit model for the fast characterization of
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th-order phoenix cells (PCs). It provides an intuitive and comprehensive quasi-analytic description of the PCs’ electrical behavior through static lumped reactive elements representation. Given the quasi-analytic nature of the model, it can be exploited in a predimensioning phase. The model proves to give good qualitative accordance with respect to full-wave simulations; statistical analysis on a large set of geometries demonstrates the model efficiency and generality.