Two novel soft-switched, high frequency, high-efficiency, non-isolated voltage regulators - The phase-shift buck converter and the matrix-transformer phase-buck converter

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 292-299

  Wei, Jia ^a   Lee, Fred C ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Micropocessors; Voltage regulatory (VR)

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC LOSSES; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; PHASE SHIFT; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; VOLTAGE REGULATORS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

MATRIX TRANSFORMER PHASE BUCK CONVERTER; PHASE SHIFT BUCK CONVERTER; POWER LOSS; SILVER BOX;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 17444362189     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2004.843014     Document Type: Article

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