Investigation on the ripple voltage and the stability of SR buck converters with high output current and low output voltage

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1008-1016

  Jinno, Masahito ^a   Chen, Po Yuan ^a   Lai, Yu Chun ^a   Harada, Koosuke ^b  

^a I SHOU UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b SOJO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ripple ratio; Stability; Synchronous rectifier (SR); Voltage regulator

Indexed keywords

BUCK CONVERTERS; CENTRAL PROCESSING UNITS; CIRCUIT OPERATION; DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; DESIGN CRITERION; EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT; FAST RESPONSE; HIGH EFFICIENCY; HIGH OUTPUT; LOW OUTPUT VOLTAGE; MOSFETS; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; PARASITIC ELEMENT; RIPPLE VOLTAGE; STATE-SPACE; STATIC AND DYNAMIC; SWITCHED MODE POWER SUPPLIES; SYNCHRONOUS RECTIFIER; SYNCHRONOUS RECTIFIER (SR);

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; POWER CONVERTERS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; STABILITY CRITERIA; SWITCHING FREQUENCY; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 76849099715     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2009.2029510     Document Type: Article

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