High-power-factor electronic ballast operating in critical conduction mode

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 93-101

  Có, Márcio Almeida ^a   Simonetti, Domingos S L ^a   Vieira, José Luiz F ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ESPÍRITO SANTO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Lighting; Power factor correction; Soft switching

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENT CONTROL; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR CORRECTION; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; FLUORESCENT LAMPS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; POWER CONVERTERS; RESONANT CIRCUITS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

BOOST CONVERTER; CRITICAL CONDUCTION MODE; ELECTRONIC BALLAST; PARALLEL RESONANT CONVERTER; SWITCHING LOSSES;

BALLASTS (LAMP);

EID: 0031699360     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/63.654963     Document Type: Article

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