A practical switching loss model for buck voltage regulators

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 700-713

  Eberle, Wilson ^a   Zhang, Zhiliang ^b   Liu, Yan Fei ^b   Sen, Paresh C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

DC DC power conversion; Modeling; MOSFETs

Indexed keywords

COMMON SOURCES; CURRENT WAVEFORMS; DC-DC POWER CONVERSION; MODELING; MOSFETS; PARASITIC INDUCTANCES; PIECE WISE-LINEAR APPROXIMATIONS; SIMULATION PROGRAM WITH INTEGRATED CIRCUIT EMPHASIS; SWITCHING LOSS; VOLTAGE SOURCES;

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC POWER MEASUREMENT; INDUCTANCE; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MOSFET DEVICES; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; SWITCHING; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE STABILIZING CIRCUITS;

SPICE;

EID: 67349221231     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2008.2007845     Document Type: Article

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