Evaluation of self-driven schemes for a 12-V self-driven voltage regulator

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2314-2322

  Jin, Ke ^a   Xu, Ming ^b   Sterk, Douglas ^b   Lee, Fred C ^b   Sun, Yi ^c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^b State University   (United States)

^c LINEAR TECHNOLOGY CORP   (United States)

Author keywords

Self driven; Soft switching; Voltage regulator (VR)

Indexed keywords

BODY-DIODE CONDUCTION; DRIVE VOLTAGE; DRIVER VOLTAGE; FULL BRIDGE CONVERTERS; INPUT VOLTAGES; LIGHT-LOAD EFFICIENCY; MULTIPHASE BUCK CONVERTER; NONISOLATED; OVERALL EFFICIENCY; SELF-DRIVEN; SYNCHRONOUS RECTIFIER;

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; SOFT SWITCHING; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE STABILIZING CIRCUITS; ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 70349091039     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2009.2021608     Document Type: Article

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