A compact single-stage converter for emergency lighting applications

PESC Record - IEEE Annual Power Electronics Specialists Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 779-784

  Wu, Y C ^a   Wu, T F ^b   Chen, Y K ^c  

^a I SHOU UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL FORMOSA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGING (BATTERIES); ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR CORRECTION; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; EMERGENCY LIGHTING; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

BI-DIRECTIONAL FLYBACK CONVERTER; COMPACT SINGLE-STAGE CONVERTER; HALF-BRIDGE SERIES-RESONANT PARALLEL-LOADED INVERTER;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 0036442858     PISSN: 02759306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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