A soft-switching scheme for an isolated DC/DC converter with pulsating DC output for a three-phase high-frequency-link PWM converter

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2276-2288

  Huang, Rongjun ^a   Mazumder, Sudip K ^a  

^a 1120 Science and Engineering Offices   (United States)

Author keywords

High frequency link; Isolated three phase converter; Soft switching; Zero voltage zero current switching (ZVZCS)

Indexed keywords

AC POWER; ACTIVE-CLAMP; BI-DIRECTIONAL POWER CONVERTER; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGH-FREQUENCY LINK; HIGH-VOLTAGES; HYBRID MODULATION; ISOLATED THREE-PHASE CONVERTER; LOAD CONDITION; LOW-VOLTAGE; PWM CONVERTER; SWITCHING CYCLES; SWITCHING LOSS; SWITCHING SCHEME; THREE-PHASE RECTIFIERS; ZERO-CURRENT SWITCHING; ZERO-VOLTAGE-ZERO-CURRENT-SWITCHING (ZVZCS);

CHARGING (BATTERIES); POWER CONVERTERS; RECTIFYING CIRCUITS; SOFT SWITCHING; ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 70349156414     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2009.2022755     Document Type: Article

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