Zero-voltage and zero-current-switching PWM combined three-level DC/DC converter

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1644-1654

  Liu, Fuxin ^a   Yan, Jiajia ^b   Ruan, Xinbo ^c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^b Bel Power Company Ltd   (China)

^c HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Combined three level (TL) dc dc converter; Phase shift; Zero current switching (ZCS); Zero voltage switching (ZVS)

Indexed keywords

COMBINED THREE-LEVEL; DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; FULL BRIDGE CONVERTERS; HIGHER EFFICIENCY; INPUT VOLTAGE RANGES; INPUT VOLTAGES; LAGGING SWITCHES; LOAD RANGE; OPERATION PRINCIPLES; OUTPUT FILTERS; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; POWER SWITCHES; RECTIFIER DIODES; VOLTAGE STRESS; ZERO-CURRENT SWITCHING;

COUNTING CIRCUITS; DC-DC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; PHASE SHIFT; PULSE MODULATION; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; THERMOLUMINESCENCE; ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 77951183835     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2009.2031950     Document Type: Article

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