Half-bridge and full-bridge choke converter concepts for the pulsed operation of large dielectric barrier discharge lamps

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 926-933

  Kyrberg, Karl ^a   Güldner, Henry ^a   Rupp, Arnulf ^b   Schallmoser, Oskar ^b  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b OSRAM GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Class E converter; Dielectric barrier discharge lamp; High side gate drive; Metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) series connection

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; ELECTRODES; MOSFET DEVICES; TOPOLOGY;

CLASS-E CONVERTER; DIELECTRIC BARRIER DISCHARGE LAMP; ELECTRONIC BALLAST; HIGH SIDE GATE DRIVE;

BALLASTS (LAMP);

EID: 34248640561     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2007.897003     Document Type: Article

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