Proposal of 98.5% High Efficiency Chopper Circuit QRAS for the Electric Vehicle and the Verification

IEEJ Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 125, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 977-987

  Tsuruta, Yukinori ^a   Kawamura, Atsuo ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

2 switch; boost chopper; DC DC converter; IGBT; QRAS; Soft switching

Indexed keywords

EID: 34748897787     PISSN: 09136339     EISSN: 13488163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1541/ieejias.125.977     Document Type: Article

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