Multi-phase buck converters with extended duty cycle

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

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 38-44

  Jang, Yungtaek ^a   Jovanović, Milan M ^a   Panov, Yuri ^a  

^a DELTA PRODUCTS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUTY CYCLES; MULTIPHASE BUCK CONVERTERS; VOLTAGE CONVERSION RATIOS; VOLTAGE STRESSES;

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC SWITCHES; ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

ELECTRIC CONVERTERS;

EID: 33749516163     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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