A novel non-isolated full bridge topology for VRM applications

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 427-437

  Ye, Sheng ^a   Eberle, Wilson ^a   Liu, Yan Fei ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Full bridge (FB); Non isolated full bridge (NFB); Phase shifted FB; Voltage regulation module (VRM)

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC INDUCTORS; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; MOSFET DEVICES; POWER CONVERTERS; ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

NON-ISOLATED FULL BRIDGE; VOLTAGE REGULATION MODULE;

VOLTAGE CONTROL;

EID: 38349036368     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2007.911848     Document Type: Article

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