Analysis of high-frequency IGBT soft switching buck converter with saturable inductors

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 407-416

  Dallago, Enrico ^a   Passoni, Marco ^a   Venchi, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT); Pulsewidth modulation (PWM); Zero voltage switching (ZVS)

Indexed keywords

CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC INDUCTORS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

HIGH SWITCHING FREQUENCY BUCK CONVERTER; SMALL SIGNAL ANALYSIS;

INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS (IGBT);

EID: 34047187935     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2006.889907     Document Type: Article

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