A soft-switching synchronous Buck converter for zero voltage switching (ZVS) in light and full load conditions

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1460-1464

  Oh, In Hwan ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b MAXIM INTEGRATED PRODUCTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIODES; EXHIBITIONS; MOSFET DEVICES; POWER CONVERTERS; POWER ELECTRONICS; SWITCHING;

BODY DIODE; BUCK CONVERTERS; CONTINUOUS-CONDUCTION MODE; DEAD-TIME; FULL LOADS; HEAVY LOADS; INDUCTOR CURRENTS; MODES OF OPERATIONS; MOSFETS; SOFT-SWITCHING; SWITCHING LOSSES; SYNCHRONOUS BUCK CONVERTERS;

ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

EID: 49249137394     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APEC.2008.4522916     Document Type: Conference Paper

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