New high power DC-DC converter with loss limited switching and lossless secondary clamp

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1020-1027

  Bendre, Ashish ^a   Norris, Steven ^b   Divan, Deepak ^b   Wallace, Ian ^c   Gascoigne, Randal W ^b  

^a DRS Sensors and Targeting Systems Inc   (United States)

^b Soft Switching Technologies Corp   (United States)

^c EATON CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Coaxial wound transformers; Dc dc converters; Loss limited switching; Rectifier reverse recovery; Soft switching

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC LOSSES; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; HIGH FREQUENCY TRANSFORMERS; INDUCTANCE; SWITCHING SYSTEMS;

COAXIAL WOUND TRANSFORMERS; HIGH FREQUENCY CONVERTER; RECTIFIER REVERSE RECOVERY; SWITCHING LOSS; ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 0041765050     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2003.813748     Document Type: Article

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