Performance of "ultra-high" efficient electronic ballast for HID lamps using SiC devices

Conference Record - IAS Annual Meeting (IEEE Industry Applications Society)

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 471-477

  Reddy, Lakshmi R Gopi ^a   Tolbert, Leon M ^a   Zhang, Hui ^a   Cheek Jr , Tom F ^b  

^a University of Tennessee   (United States)

^b EPIC Systems Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic ballast; HID lamps; Power loss modeling; Resonant inverter; Silicon carbide (SiC)

Indexed keywords

AC GENERATOR MOTORS; ELECTRIC LAMPS; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; LIGHTING; MOSFET DEVICES; SILICON; SILICON CARBIDE;

ANNUAL MEETINGS; BOOST CONVERTERS; ELECTRONIC BALLAST; ELECTRONIC BALLASTS; HID LAMPS; HIGH FREQUENCY INVERTERS; HIGH-EFFICIENCY; HIGH-INTENSITY-DISCHARGE LAMPS; LOSS MODELING; MOSFETS; OVERALL EFFICIENCY; POWER FACTOR CORRECTIONS; POWER LOSS MODELING; RESONANT INVERTER; SI MOSFET; SIC DEVICES; SILICON CARBIDE (SIC); ULTRA-HIGH;

BALLASTS (LAMP);

EID: 48949095235     PISSN: 01972618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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