Quasi-resonant converters for high-frequency voltage regulator applications

Conference Proceedings - IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition - APEC

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 891-897

  Yao, Kaiwei ^a   Xu, Ming ^a   Ren, Yuancheng ^a   Zhou, Jinghai ^a   Qiu, Yang ^a   Lee, Fred C ^a  

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

Author keywords

Active clamp circuit; High frequency DC DC converter; Quasi resonant converter; Voltage regulator

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; CIRCUIT OSCILLATIONS; CIRCUIT RESONANCE; ELECTRIC LOADS; ELECTRIC LOSSES; FREQUENCY MODULATION; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

ACTIVE-CLAMP CIRCUIT; HIGH-FREQUENCY DC-DC CONVERTER; QUASI-RESONANT CONVERTERS; SWITCHING FREQUENCY;

ELECTRIC CONVERTERS;

EID: 2342460861     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APEC.2004.1295928     Document Type: Conference Paper

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