Soft-Switching Techniques in PWM Converters

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 1995, Pages 595-603

  Hua, Guichao ^a   Lee, Fred C ^b  

^a Virginia Power Technologies   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; MODELS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; SCHEMATIC DIAGRAMS; SWITCHING; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

QUASI SQUARE WAVE CONVERTERS; RESONANT CONVERTERS; ZERO CURRENT SWITCHING; ZERO VOLTAGE SOFT SWITCHING; ZERO VOLTAGE TRANSITION;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 0029483052     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: 15579948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/41.475500     Document Type: Article

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