Low-cost high power-density electronic ballast for automotive HID lamp

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 361-368

  Reatti, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; RESONANT CIRCUITS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ELECTRONIC BALLAST; HIGH INTENSITY DISCHARGE LAMP; RESONANT INVERTER; SQUARE WAVE INVERTER; STEADY STATE EFFICIENCY; ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

BALLASTS (LAMP);

EID: 0033741330     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/63.838109     Document Type: Article

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