Design of piezoelectric transformers for power converters by means of analytical and numerical methods

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 79-88

  Sánchez, Almudena M ^a   Sanz, Marina ^a,b   Prieto, Roberto ^a   Oliver, Jesús A ^a   Alou, Pedro ^a   Cobos, José A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Design methodology; Finite element methods; Piezoelectric transformer (PT); Power conversion

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; POWER CONVERTERS;

ENERGY TRANSFERENCE; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSFORMER;

PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES;

EID: 38349055051     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2007.896513     Document Type: Article

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