A new, soft-switched boost converter with isolated active snubber

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 496-502

  Jovanović, Milan M ^a   Jang, Yungtaek ^a  

^a DELTA PRODUCTS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Active snubber; Boost converter; Power factor correction; Reverse recovery loss; Switching; Zero voltage

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE NETWORKS; CAPACITANCE; CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; ELECTRIC INDUCTORS; ELECTRIC LOSSES; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR CORRECTION; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; MOSFET DEVICES;

CLAMP CAPACITORS; ISOLATED ACTIVE SNUBBERS; SOFT-SWITCHED BOOST CONVERTERS;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 0033097890     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/28.753646     Document Type: Article

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