Electromagnetic Considerations in Power Electronic Converters

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 864-875

  Evans, Peter D ^a,b   Heffernan, Bill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b Circuits Consultants Limited   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Magnetics; Power electronics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005805247     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.931478     Document Type: Article

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