A comparison of active and passive soft switching methods for PWM converters

PESC Record - IEEE Annual Power Electronics Specialists Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 1998, Pages 94-100

  Matsuura, Isao ^a   Smith, K Mark ^a   Smedley, K M ^a  

^a University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE METHOD; BOOST CONVERTER; HIGH-POWER OPERATION; OPERATION CONDITIONS; PASSIVE METHODS; PWM CONVERTER; RESONANT ELEMENTS; SWITCHING METHODS;

SOFT SWITCHING;

POWER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 0001849856     PISSN: 02759306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PESC.1998.701884     Document Type: Conference Paper

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