Opportunities and challenges in Very High Frequency power conversion

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-14

  Perreault, David J ^a   Hu, Jingying ^a   Rivasy, Juan M ^b   Han, Yehui ^a   Leitermann, Olivia ^a   Pilawa Podgurski, Robert C N ^a   Sagneri, Anthony ^a   Sullivan, Charles R ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT DESIGNS; CONTROL METHODS; FREQUENCY RANGES; HEAT TRANSFER LIMITATION; MAGNETIC COMPONENTS; PARASITICS; POWER CONVERSION; VERY-HIGH-FREQUENCY POWER CONVERSIONS;

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

POWER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 66049127298     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APEC.2009.4802625     Document Type: Conference Paper

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