A novel high-efficiency battery charger with a buck zero-voltage-switching resonant converter

IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 848-854

  Chuang, Ying Chun ^a   Ke, Yu Lung ^a  

^a KUN SHAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Battery charger; Battery chargers; Photovoltaic array; Resonant converter; Resonant power converters; Soft switching; Switches; Zero voltage switching; Zero voltage switching (ZVS)

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC SWITCHES; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; POWER CONVERTERS; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

BATTERY CHARGERS; PHOTOVOLTAIC ARRAY; RESONANT CONVERTER; RESONANT POWER CONVERTERS; SOFT-SWITCHING;

CHARGING (BATTERIES);

EID: 37749037771     PISSN: 08858969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEC.2006.882416     Document Type: Article

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