The determination of the boundaries between continuous and discontinuous conduction modes in PWM dc-to-dc converters used as Power Factor Preregulators

PESC Record - IEEE Annual Power Electronics Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 1992, Pages 1061-1070

  Sebastian J ^a   Cobos, J A ^a   Gil, P ^a   Uceda, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR CORRECTION; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

CONDUCTION MODE; DC-TO-DC CONVERTERS; DISCONTINUOUS CONDUCTION MODE; INPUT VOLTAGES; OPERATION POINT; POWER FACTOR PREREGULATORS; SINUSOIDAL INPUT VOLTAGE; SWITCHING CONVERTER;

DC-DC CONVERTERS;

EID: 3743053466     PISSN: 02759306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PESC.1992.254767     Document Type: Conference Paper

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