A 900W, 300V to 50V Dc-dc power converter with a 30MHz switching frequency

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1121-1128

  Glaser, John S ^a   Nasadoski, Jeffrey ^a   Heinrich, Richard ^b  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DC-DC POWER CONVERTER; HIGH EFFICIENCY; INPUT VOLTAGE RANGES; MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY; MODULE ARCHITECTURE; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; PARALLEL OUTPUT; PEAK OUTPUT POWER; POWER CONVERSION; POWER DENSITIES; PRIMARY PATH;

POWER CONVERTERS; POWER ELECTRONICS; SWITCHING FREQUENCY;

ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS;

EID: 65949093504     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APEC.2009.4802804     Document Type: Conference Paper

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