A passive soft-switching snubber for PWM inverters

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 363-370

  Peng, Fang Z ^a   Su, Gui Jia ^b   Tolbert, Leon M ^b,c  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

EMI; PSSS; PWM; Soft switching inverters

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE INTERFERENCE; PASSIVE NETWORKS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

ACTIVE SWITCHES; PASSIVE SOFT SWITCHING SNUBBER; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION INVERTERS; REGENERATIVE CIRCUIT;

POWER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 1842423146     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2003.823204     Document Type: Article

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