Novel zero-voltage-transition PWM converters

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 213-219

  Hua, Guichao ^a   Leu, Ching Shan ^a   Jiang, Yimin ^a   Lee, Fred C Y ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; ELECTRIC SWITCHES; MINIMIZATION OF SWITCHING NETS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; RESONANT CIRCUITS; SWITCHING; SWITCHING FUNCTIONS; SWITCHING NETWORKS; TRANSISTORS;

CURRENT STRESSES; PULSE WIDTH MODULATED CONVERTERS; SOFT SWITCHING TECHNIQUES; VOLTAGE STRESSES; ZERO VOLTAGE TRANSITION;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 0028384230     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: 19410107     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/63.286814     Document Type: Article

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