Interleaved active-clamping converter with ZVS/ZCS features

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 29-37

  Hsia, Tsun Hsiao ^a   Tsai, Hsien Yi ^a   Chen, Dan ^a   Lee, Martin ^b   Huang, Chun Shih ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Chicony Power Technology Corporation Ltd   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Active clamping converter; interleave; zero current switching (ZCS); zero voltage switching (ZVS)

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE-CLAMP; ACTIVE-CLAMPING CONVERTER; CIRCUIT FEATURES; DC-TO-DC CONVERTERS; FREQUENCY OPERATION; INTERLEAVE; INTERLEAVING OPERATION; LEAKAGE INDUCTANCE; MAGNETIZING INDUCTANCE; OUTPUT CAPACITOR; RESONANT TANKS; SECONDARY-SIDE; VOLTAGE STRESS; ZERO-CURRENT SWITCHING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INDUCTANCE; SOFT SWITCHING; TANKS (CONTAINERS);

ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

EID: 78650984694     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2010.2051456     Document Type: Article

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