A novel two phase nonisolated full bridge with shared primary switches

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2363-2376

  Ye, Sheng ^a   Meyer, Eric ^a   Liu, Yan Fei ^a   Liu, Xiaodong ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ANHUI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Nonisolated full bridge (NFB); Two phase NFB; Voltage regulation module; Voltage regulator module (VRM)

Indexed keywords

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

EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENTS; FULL BRIDGES; FULL LOADS; FULL-BRIDGE TOPOLOGIES; LIGHT LOADS; LOWER COSTS; MOS FETS; NONISOLATED; NONISOLATED FULL BRIDGE (NFB); POWER TRAINS; REDUCED COSTS; TWO-PHASE NFB; VOLTAGE REGULATION MODULE; VOLTAGE REGULATOR MODULE (VRM);

TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 57349184606     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2008.2001915     Document Type: Article

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