Three-Switch Active-Clamp forward converter with low switch voltage stress and wide ZVS range for high-input-voltage applications

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 889-898

  Park, Ki Bum ^a   Kim, Chong Eun ^a,b   Moon, Gun Woo ^a   Youn, Myung Joong ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b Samsung Electro Mechanics   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Active clamp circuit (ACC); Active clamp forward (ACF) converter; Three switch ACF (TS ACF) converter

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE-CLAMP; ACTIVE-CLAMP FORWARD CONVERTERS; AUXILIARY SWITCH; FORWARD CONVERTERS; HIGH EFFICIENCY; HIGH-VOLTAGE STRESS; LOW VOLTAGES; POWER APPLICATIONS; SIMPLE STRUCTURES; SWITCH VOLTAGE; THREE-SWITCH ACF (TS-ACF) CONVERTER; VOLTAGE APPLICATIONS;

ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

EID: 77950844005     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2009.2036620     Document Type: Conference Paper

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