Analysis and implementation of a passive lossless soft-switching snubber for PWM inverters

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 411-426

  Zhang, Huaguang ^a,b   Wang, Qiang ^a,c   Chu, Enhui ^a   Liu, Xiuchong ^a   Hou, Limin ^a,d  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KEY LABORATORY OF INTEGRATED AUTOMATION OF PROCESS INDUSTRY   (China)

^c LIAONING SHIHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d LIAONING TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Dead time; pulse width modulation (PWM); soft switching inverters; zero current turn ON; zero voltage turn OFF

Indexed keywords

DEAD TIME; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION (PWM); SOFT-SWITCHING INVERTERS; ZERO-CURRENT TURN ON; ZERO-VOLTAGE TURN OFF;

MODULATION; PASSIVE NETWORKS; SOFT SWITCHING; SWITCHING;

PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

EID: 79951523854     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2010.2054836     Document Type: Article

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