Zero-Voltage-Switching Multiresonant Technique—a Novel Approach to Improve Performance of High-Frequency Quasi-Resonant Converters

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1989, Pages 450-458

  Tabisz, Wojciech A ^a,b   Lee, Fred C Y ^a,b  

^a Virginia Power Electronics Cent   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC NETWORKS, SWITCHING--RESONANT CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC NETWORKS--TOPOLOGY; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; ELECTRIC WAVEFORMS;

BACK CONVERTER; MULTIRESONANT CONVERTERS; QUASI-RESONANT CONVERTERS; ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

ELECTRIC CONVERTERS, STATIC;

EID: 0024751389     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: 19410107     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/63.41774     Document Type: Article

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