A switching-capacitor PWM DCDC converter and its variations

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 24-32

  Jin, Ke ^a   Xu, Ming ^b   Lee, Fred C ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^b Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Point of load (POL) converter; Pulsewidth modulation (PWM) converter; Self driven; Switching capacitor converter; Zero voltage switching (ZVS)

Indexed keywords

BODY-DIODE CONDUCTION; CONTROL STRATEGIES; DISCRETE TRANSFORMERS; FOUR-PHASE; HIGHER EFFICIENCY; LOAD RANGE; MOSFETS; POINT-OF-LOAD CONVERTERS; PULSEWIDTH MODULATION CONVERTERS; PWM CONVERTER; SELF-DRIVEN; SYNCHRONOUS RECTIFIER; VOLTAGE REGULATOR DOWNS; VOLTAGE REGULATOR MODULE;

CAPACITANCE; CAPACITORS; COUNTING CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC LOADS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; POWER CONVERTERS; PULSE MODULATION; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE REGULATORS; ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 76649087652     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2009.2023218     Document Type: Article

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