Design of fluorescent lamp ballast with PFC using a power piezoelectric transformer

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1573-1581

  Choi, Sung Jin ^a   Lee, Kyu Chan ^a   Cho, Bo Hyung ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Ballast; Charge pump; Piezoelectric transformer (PT); Power factor correction (PFC)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR CORRECTION; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; FLUORESCENT LAMPS; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES;

PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSFORMER (PT); VOLTAGE SOURCE CHARGE PUMP POWER FACTOR CORRECTION;

BALLASTS (LAMP);

EID: 29244462353     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2005.858726     Document Type: Article

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