A new, soft-switched, high-power-factor boost converter with IGBTs

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 469-476

  Jang, Yungtaek ^a,b   Jovanović, Milan M ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b DELTA PRODUCTS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Active snubber; Boost converter; IGBT; Power factor correction; Reverse recovery loss; Zero current switching; Zero voltage switching

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SNUBBER; BOOST CONVERTER; INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTOR; REVERSE RECOVERY LOSS; ZERO CURRENT SWITCHING; ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

ELECTRIC LOSSES; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; POWER CONVERTERS; POWER INDUCTORS; SWITCHING;

BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS;

EID: 0036647608     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2002.801002     Document Type: Article

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