Gate-drive circuit for zero-voltage-switching half- and full-bridge converters

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1380-1388

  Van De Sype, David M ^a,b   Van Den Bossche, Alex P M ^a,b   Maes, Jehudi ^a,b,c   Melkebeek, Jan A ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c Picanol NV   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Full bridge converter; Gate drive circuit; Half bridge converter; Zero voltage switching

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT RESONANCE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC SWITCHES; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

FULL-BRIDGE CONVERTERS; GATE-DRIVE CIRCUITS;

ELECTRIC CONVERTERS;

EID: 0036754723     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2002.802944     Document Type: Article

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