A nonisolated ZVS asymmetrical buck voltage regulator module with direct energy transfer

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 3096-3105

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

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Buck converter; Current source driver (CSD); Synchronous rectifier (SR); Voltage regulator module (VRM); Zero voltage switching (ZVS)

Indexed keywords

BUCK CONVERTER; CURRENT-SOURCE DRIVER (CSD); SYNCHRONOUS RECTIFIER (SR); VOLTAGE REGULATOR MODULE (VRM); ZERO-VOLTAGE SWITCHING (ZVS);

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; ENERGY TRANSFER; MOSFET DEVICES; SWITCHING FREQUENCY; TOPOLOGY; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE STABILIZING CIRCUITS; ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 68449097353     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2009.2023102     Document Type: Article

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