Self-driven synchronous rectification scheme without undesired gate-voltage discharge for DC-DC converters with symmetrically driven transformers

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 506-510

  Qian, Ting ^a   Song, Wei ^a   Lehman, Brad ^a  

^a Northeastern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Self driven; Synchronous rectification

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; ELECTRIC INDUCTORS; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; ELECTRIC SWITCHES; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS;

AUXILIARY SWITCHES; SYNCHRONOUS RECTIFICATION;

DC-DC CONVERTERS;

EID: 38349045406     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2007.914204     Document Type: Article

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