Integrated magnetic self-driven ZVS nonisolated full-bridge converter

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1615-1623

  Jin, Ke ^a   Sun, Yi ^b   Xu, Ming ^c   Sterk, Douglas ^c   Lee, Fred C ^c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^b LINEAR TECHNOLOGY CORP   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Self driven; Soft switching; Voltage regulator (VR)

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE VOLTAGE; DIRECT CURRENT RESISTANCE; FORM FACTORS; FULL BRIDGE CONVERTERS; FULL-BRIDGE TOPOLOGY; HIGH EFFICIENCY; HIGH-POWER-DENSITY; HIGHER EFFICIENCY; INTEGRATED TRANSFORMERS; MAIN CIRCUIT; MULTIPHASE BUCK CONVERTER; NONISOLATED; PASSIVE COMPONENTS; SELF-DRIVEN; SYNCHRONOUS RECTIFIER;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; SOFT SWITCHING; VOLTAGE CONTROL; VOLTAGE REGULATORS; ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 77951185776     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2009.2031192     Document Type: Article

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