A true ZCZVT commutation cell for PWM converters

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 185-193

  De Oliveira Stein, Carlos Marcelo ^a,b   Hey, Hélio Leaes ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA MARIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

High performance dc dc power conversion; IGBT's; Zero current zero voltage switching (ZCZVS)

Indexed keywords

BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC COMMUTATION; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; POWER CONVERTERS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; SWITCHING NETWORKS;

BOOST CONVERTER; COMMUTATION CELL; ZERO CURRENT ZERO VOLTAGE TRANSITION;

ELECTRIC COMMUTATORS;

EID: 0033875456     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/63.817376     Document Type: Article

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