Improving efficiency of the active-clamped SEPIC rectifier at high line frequencies

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 1152-1157

  Athalye, Praneet ^a   Maksimović, Dragan ^a   Erickson, Robert ^a  

^a University of Colorado   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRIC ENERGY STORAGE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; HARMONIC DISTORTION; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; TOPOLOGY;

DIODE CONDUCTION; LINE FREQUENCIES; TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTION (THD); VOLTAGE CLAMP;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 33745007985     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APEC.2005.1453143     Document Type: Article

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