Design considerations for achieving ZVS in a half bridge inverter that drives a piezoelectric transformer with no series inductor

PESC Record - IEEE Annual Power Electronics Specialists Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 585-590

  Bronstein, Svetlana ^a   Ben Yaakov, Sam ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIODES; ELECTRIC INDUCTORS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTRIC SWITCHES; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS;

HALF BRIDGE INVERTER; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSFORMER; SOFT SWITCHING;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 0036444513     PISSN: 02759306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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