Two-transformer current-fed converter with a simple auxiliary circuit for a wide duty range

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1901-1912

  Park, Ki Bum ^a   Moon, Gun Woo ^a   Youn, Myung Joong ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Current fed converter; two transformer current fed (TTCF) converter

Indexed keywords

AUXILIARY CIRCUITS; BOOST INDUCTORS; CONDUCTING PATHS; CURRENT-FED CONVERTER; DUTY CYCLES; IN-RUSH CURRENT; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; SIMPLE STRUCTURES; START-UPS; TWO-TRANSFORMER CURRENT-FED (TTCF) CONVERTER; WIDE DUTY-CYCLE RANGE;

DC-DC CONVERTERS;

EID: 80051692350     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2010.2094625     Document Type: Article

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