Nova ZVT-PWM converters with active snubbers

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 861-869

  Tseng, Ching Jung ^b   Chen, Chern Lin ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Converters; Pulsewidth modulation; Switching circuits

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE NETWORKS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

ACTIVE SNUBBERS; ZERO-VOLTAGE-SWITCHING (ZVS); ZERO-VOLTAGE-TRANSITION (ZVT);

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 0032163701     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/63.712292     Document Type: Article

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