A simple two-channel LED driver with automatic precise current sharing

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 58, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 4783-4788

  Wu, Xinke ^a   Zhang, Junming ^a   Qian, Zhaoming ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Charge balancing; current sharing for LED strings; LED driver

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATING CURRENT; CHARGE BALANCING; CURRENT-SHARING; H-BRIDGES; HIGH-FREQUENCY CURRENT; LED DRIVER; LED DRIVERS; OPERATION PRINCIPLES; SECONDARY-SIDE; SERIES-PARALLEL; SINUSOIDAL CURRENTS; TWO-CHANNEL; VOLTAGE DROP;

BRIDGE CIRCUITS; DC-DC CONVERTERS; DISTILLATION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; RECTIFYING CIRCUITS;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 80052379007     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2011.2109339     Document Type: Article

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