A dimmable electronic ballast with unity power factor based on a single-stage current-fed resonant inverter

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 3103-3115

  Lam, John C W ^a   Jain, Praveen K ^a,b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CHiL Semiconductor   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic ballast; Fluorescent lamps; Power factor correction

Indexed keywords

AC GENERATOR MOTORS; BALLASTS (LAMP); ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENT LAMPS; INTEGRATION; LIGHTING; SIGNAL ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BUCK BOOSTS; CIRCUIT COMPONENTS; CIRCULATING CURRENTS; COMPACT FLUORESCENT LAMPS; DIMMABLE ELECTRONIC BALLASTS; DISCONTINUOUS CONDUCTION MODES; ELECTRONIC BALLAST; GATE DRIVERS; HIGH EFFICIENCIES; HIGH POWER FACTORS; ISOLATION DEVICES; LAMP POWER; POWER CONDITIONS; POWER FACTOR CORRECTION; POWER FACTOR CORRECTORS; PROCESSING UNITS; RESONANT INVERTERS; RESONANT TANKS; SINGLE STAGES; SMALL-SIGNAL ANALYSIS; UNITY POWER FACTORS; VARIABLE FREQUENCY CONTROLLERS; WAVE FORMS;

ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR;

EID: 59749084069     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2008.2005377     Document Type: Article

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