Synchronous rectification technique for high-voltage single-ended power converters

2010 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2010 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 264-271

  McNeill, Neville ^a   Wrobel, Rafal ^a   Mellor, Philip H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUCK CONVERTERS; CONDUCTION LOSS; DELAY TIME; DRIVE SIGNAL; HIGH-VOLTAGES; INPUT VOLTAGES; INTRINSIC DIODE; LOW-VOLTAGE; MOS-FET; POWER CONVERSION; REVERSE RECOVERY; SATURABLE INDUCTORS; SINGLE-ENDED; SWITCHED-MODE; SYNCHRONOUS RECTIFICATION;

DC-DC CONVERTERS; ENERGY CONVERSION; MOSFET DEVICES;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 78650162692     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2010.5618029     Document Type: Conference Paper

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