A self core reset and zero voltage switching forward converter topology

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1192-1203

  Xi, Youhao ^a,b   Jain, Praveen K ^a,c   Liu, Yan F ^a,d   Orr, Ray ^e  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b EMS Technologies Canada Ltd   (Canada)

^c Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^d QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e Potentia Telecom Power   (Canada)

Author keywords

Forward converter topology; Power transformer; Self driven synchronous rectifiers; Soft switching; Zero voltage switching

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; MAGNETIC CORES; MAGNETIC FLUX; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SWITCHING; TRANSFORMER MAGNETIC CIRCUITS; TRANSFORMER WINDINGS;

AUXILIARY CIRCUIT; POWER TRANSFORMER; SELF CORE RESET; STEADY STATE ANALYSIS; ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 0034313428     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/63.892834     Document Type: Article

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