A novel driving scheme for synchronous rectifier suitable for modules in parallel

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1287-1293

  Gu, Yilei ^a   Lu, Zhengyu ^a   Qian, Zhaoming ^a   Huang, Guisong ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Delta Power Electronics Center   (China)

Author keywords

In parallel; Self driven scheme; Synchronous rectifier (SR)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; SHORT CIRCUIT CURRENTS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

PARALLEL OPERATION; SELF DRIVEN SCHEME; SYNCHRONOUS RECTIFIER;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 28444432663     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2005.857528     Document Type: Article

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