Analysis and design of an interleaved active-clamping forward converter

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 2323-2332

  Lo, Yu Kang ^a   Kao, Tsu Shou ^a   Lin, Jing Yuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Active clamping; Complementary switching; Interleaved forward converter; Zero voltage switching (ZVS)

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; DESIGN; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC INDUCTORS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; INDUCTANCE; SWITCHING FREQUENCY;

INTERLEAVED FORWARD CONVERTER; LEAKAGE INDUCTANCE; ZERO-VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

ELECTRIC CONVERTERS;

EID: 34548130084     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2007.899975     Document Type: Article

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