A new class of low-cost three-phase high-quality rectifiers with zero-voltage switching

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 734-742

  Ismail, Esam Hamid ^a,b   Erickson, Robert ^c  

^a IEEE   (Kuwait)

^b The Public Authority for Applied Education and Training   (Kuwait)

^c UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic power factor correction; High power factor power; Low harmonic rectifier; Rectifier; Resonant; ZCS; ZVS

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR CORRECTION; POWER CONVERTERS; RESONANT CIRCUITS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

LOW HARMONIC RECTIFIER; THREE PHASE ZVS RESONANT RECTIFIER; ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 0031176082     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/63.602569     Document Type: Article

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