Coreless printed circuit board (PCB) transformers with multiple secondary windings for complementary gate drive circuits

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 431-437

  Tang, S C ^a,b   Hui, S Y ^a,b,c   Chung, Henry Shu Hung ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Hong Kong)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORELESS PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD TRANSFORMERS; GATE DRIVES; MAGNETICS; MULTIPLE SECONDARY WINDINGS;

BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC CORES; MOSFET DEVICES; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; TRANSFORMER WINDINGS;

ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS;

EID: 0032656604     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/63.761686     Document Type: Article

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