Effect of resonant transition on efficiency of forward converter with active clamp and self-driven SRs

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 315-323

  Tuomainen, Vesa ^a   Kyyrä, Jorma ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Forward converter; Magnetizing inductance; Self driven synchronous rectifiers

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC LOSSES; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; INDUCTANCE; INDUCTANCE MEASUREMENT; MAGNETIZATION; RESONANT CIRCUITS; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT;

ACTIVE CLAMP; FORWARD CONVERTER; MAGNETIZING INDUCTANCE; RESONANT TRANSITION; SELF DRIVEN SYNCHRONOUS RECTIFIERS; SWITCHING LOSS;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 17444424895     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2004.843008     Document Type: Article

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