A soft-single-switched forward converter with low stresses and two derived structures

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 388-395

  Da Silva, Evandro Soares ^a   Coelho, Ernane Antônio Alves ^b   De Freitas, Luiz Carlos ^b   Vieira Jr , João Batista ^b   Farias, Valdeir José ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FORTALEZA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

PWM; Soft single switched; ZCS; ZVS

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENT CONTROL; POWER CONVERTERS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

SOFT SWITCHED FORWARD CONVERTER; ZERO CURRENT SWITCHING; ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

POWER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 1842527648     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2003.823251     Document Type: Article

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