Analysis and design of forward converter with energy regenerative snubber

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 667-676

  Abramovitz, Alexander ^a   Cheng, Tang ^a   Smedley, Keyue ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

DC DC power conversion; Snubbers

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS AND DESIGN; DC-DC POWER CONVERSION; FORWARD CONVERTERS; LEAKAGE INDUCTANCE; POWER SWITCHES; RECOVERED ENERGY; VOLTAGE SPIKES;

ELECTRIC POWER MEASUREMENT; INDUCTANCE;

TRANSFORMER WINDINGS;

EID: 77950657487     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2009.2033275     Document Type: Article

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