Evaluation of coupled inductor voltage regulators

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 831-837

  Dong, Yan ^a   Lee, Fred C ^a   Xu, Ming ^a  

^a State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Coupled inductor; Voltage regulator (VR)

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EXHIBITIONS; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE REGULATORS; VOLTAGE STABILIZING CIRCUITS;

COUPLED INDUCTOR; COUPLED INDUCTORS; VOLTAGE REGULATOR (VR);

POWER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 49249120186     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APEC.2008.4522817     Document Type: Conference Paper

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