A high-voltage DC-DC converter with Vin/3 - Voltage stress on the primary switches

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2124-2137

  Song, Ting Ting ^a   Chung, Henry S H ^a   Ioinovici, Adrian ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b HOLON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

DC DC conversion; DC DC power converters; High load current converter; High voltage converter; High voltage techniques; Switches

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; ELECTRIC SWITCHES; POWER ELECTRONICS; THRESHOLD VOLTAGE;

HIGH-VOLTAGE CONVERTER; HIGH-VOLTAGE TECHNIQUES; OUTPUT CURRENT CAPACITY; VOLTAGE STRESS;

DC-DC CONVERTERS;

EID: 36348946230     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2007.909227     Document Type: Article

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