A ZCS full-bridge converter without voltage overstress on the switches

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 686-698

  Zhang, Xin ^a   Chung, Henry Shu Hung ^b   Ruan, Xinbo ^c   Ioinovici, Adrian ^d  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d HOLON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Adaptable soft switching; Dc dc conversion; High voltage converter; Zero current switching

Indexed keywords

DC-DC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; HVDC POWER TRANSMISSION; RESONANT CIRCUITS; ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; CONVERTER EFFICIENCY; COUPLING TRANSFORMERS; DC-DC CONVERSION; FULL BRIDGE CONVERTERS; HIGH-VOLTAGE CONVERTER; SWITCHING OPERATIONS; ZERO-VOLTAGE-SWITCHED;

ZERO CURRENT SWITCHING;

EID: 77950671182     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2009.2035124     Document Type: Article

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