The light load issue of coupled inductor laptop voltage regulators and its solutions

Conference Proceedings - IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition - APEC

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1581-1587

  Dong, Yan ^a   Sun, Julu ^a   Xu, Ming ^a   Lee, Fred C ^a   Jovanovic, Milan M ^b  

^a Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

^b DELTA PRODUCTS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Coupled inductor; Laptop; Light load efficiency; Voltage regulator (VR)

Indexed keywords

APPLIED (CO); COUPLED INDUCTORS; EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS; LIGHT LOADS; LIGHT-LOAD EFFICIENCY;

COMPUTERS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EXHIBITIONS; LAPTOP COMPUTERS; LOADS (FORCES); VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE REGULATORS; VOLTAGE STABILIZING CIRCUITS;

POWER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 46449114597     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APEX.2007.357728     Document Type: Conference Paper

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