Lossless passive soft-switching methods for inverters and amplifiers

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 164-173

  Smith Jr , K Mark ^a,b   Smedley, Keyue Ma ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOSSLESS SNUBBER; SOFT SWITCHING METHODS; VOLTAGE STRESS; ZERO CURRENT TURN ON; ZERO VOLTAGE TURN OFF;

BRIDGE CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRIC WAVEFORMS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; POWER CONVERTERS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

SWITCHING NETWORKS;

EID: 0033908878     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/63.817374     Document Type: Article

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