A zero-voltage and zero-current switching three-level DC-DC converter with reduced rectifier voltage stress and soft-switching-oriented optimized design

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1204-1212

  Song, Ting Ting ^b,c   Huang, Nianci ^b   Ioinovici, Adrian ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (Israel)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HOLON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Pulsewidth modulation (PWM); Three level converter; Zero voltage zero current switching (ZVZCS)

Indexed keywords

LAGGING SWITCHES; THREE LEVEL CONVERTERS; VOLTAGE STRESSES; ZERO-VOLTAGE ZERO-CURRENT SWITCHING (ZVZCS);

CAPACITORS; DC TRANSFORMERS; DIODES; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

ELECTRIC CONVERTERS;

EID: 33947172625     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2006.880351     Document Type: Article

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