A passive auxiliary circuit achieves zero-voltage-switching in full-bridge converter over entire conversion range

IEEE Power Electronics Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 141-143

  Borage, Mangesh ^a   Tiwari, Sunil ^a   Kotaiah, Swarna ^a  

^a RAJA RAMANNA CENTRE FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

DC DC converter; Full bridge converter; Phase shift control; Zero voltage switching

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ENERGY STORAGE; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; SWITCHING;

FULL-BRIDGE CONVERTER; PHASE-SHIFT CONTROL; ZERO-VOLTAGE-SWITCHING (ZVS);

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 31644449026     PISSN: 15407985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPEL.2005.863601     Document Type: Article

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