Passive lossless snubber for boost PFC with minimum voltage and current stress

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 602-613

  Li, River T H ^a   Chung, Henry Shu Hung ^a   Sung, Anson K T ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Boost converter; Passive lossless snubber; Power factor corrector; Snubbers

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE CURRENT-MODE CONTROL; BOOST CONVERTER; BOOST PFC; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; CONTINUOUS CONDUCTION MODE; CURRENT STRESS; FULL-LOAD; INPUT CURRENT; LINE CYCLES; LOAD RANGE; LOSSLESS; ON CURRENTS; OPERATING PRINCIPLES; OPERATING RANGES; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; POWER-FACTOR CORRECTOR; REVERSE RECOVERY CURRENT;

SOFT SWITCHING;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 77950682726     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2009.2035123     Document Type: Article

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