Novel self-excited PWM converters with zero-voltage-switched resonant transition using a saturable core

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

Volumn , Issue , 1992, Pages 58-65

  Gu, Wen Jian ^a   Harada, Koosuke ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POWER CONVERTERS; POWER ELECTRONICS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

CURRENT FLOWING; PWM CONVERTER; QUASI-SQUARE WAVES; RESONANT MODE; RESONANT TRANSITION; SATURABLE CORES; SELF - EXCITED; ZERO-VOLTAGE-SWITCHED;

ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

EID: 33749719675     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APEC.1992.228430     Document Type: Conference Paper

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