High-quality single-phase power conversion by reconsidering the magnetic components in the output stagebuilding a better half-bridge

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2048-2055

  Chapelsky, Chris ^a   Salmon, John ^a   Knight, Andrew M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coupled winding inductor; High bandwidth power amplifier; Inductor filter; Multilevel; Pulsewidth modulation converter

Indexed keywords

AUDIO POWER AMPLIFIER; CIRCUIT SIZE; CLASS-D; CURRENT PERFORMANCE; CURRENT RIPPLES; DEADTIME; DESIGN PROCESS; DESIGN TRADEOFF; ELECTRICAL PERFORMANCE; HALF-BRIDGE; HIGH BANDWIDTH; HIGH QUALITY; HIGH-BANDWIDTH POWER AMPLIFIER; LIMITING FACTORS; LOW POWER; MAGNETIC COMPONENTS; MULTILEVEL; OPEN LOOPS; OPTIMIZED DESIGNS; REDUCED PART COUNT; SINGLE-PHASE POWER; SWITCHING TOPOLOGY; SYSTEM LOSS; TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTIONS;

MAGNETIC DEVICES; MODULATION; POWER AMPLIFIERS; TOPOLOGY; WINDING;

DESIGN;

EID: 70450270727     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2009.2031890     Document Type: Article

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