Loss free gate driver unipolar power supply for high side power transistors

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1565-1573

  Crébier, Jean Christopher ^a   Rouger, Nicolas ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Capacitors; Converters; Driver circuits; High frequency (HF) transformers; Logic gates; Power demand; Regulators; Switches

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CURRENT REGULATORS; ELECTRIC SWITCHES; GATES (TRANSISTOR); LOGIC GATES;

HIGH-FREQUENCY (HF) TRANSFORMERS; POWER ELECTRONIC SWITCH GATE DRIVERS;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS;

EID: 44449098611     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2008.921163     Document Type: Article

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