A single-stage high-power-factor electronic ballast with ZVS buck-boost conversion

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1136-1146

  Moo, Chin Sien ^a   Lee, Kuo Hsing ^a   Cheng, Hung Liang ^b   Chen, Wei Ming ^c  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b I SHOU UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c Department of Product Application   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Buck boost converter; Electronic ballast; Fluorescent lamp; Resonant inverter

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE POWER SWITCHES; ANALYTICAL PREDICTIONS; BUCK BOOSTS; BUCK-BOOST CONVERTER; CIRCUIT EFFICIENCIES; CIRCUIT PARAMETERS; COUPLED INDUCTORS; ELECTRONIC BALLAST; HALF BRIDGES; HIGH POWER FACTORS; LINE SOURCES; POWER SWITCHES; PROTOTYPE CIRCUITS; RAPID-START FLUORESCENT LAMPS; RESONANT INVERTER; SINGLE STAGES;

BALLASTS (LAMP); FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENT LAMPS; ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

ELECTRIC CONVERTERS;

EID: 65549111868     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2008.2008338     Document Type: Article

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