Design considerations of soft-switched buck PFC converter with constant on-time (COT) control

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3144-3152

  Wu, Xinke ^a   Yang, Jianyou ^b   Zhang, Junming ^a   Xu, Ming ^c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Wenzhou Electric Power Bureau   (China)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AC DC; buck power factor correction (PFC); high efficiency; zero voltage switching (ZVS)

Indexed keywords

AC-DC; AC-DC CONVERTERS; CLASS-D; CRITICAL CONDUCTION MODES; DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; DESIGN CRITERION; DESIGN METHODOLOGY; INPUT CURRENT HARMONICS; INPUT VOLTAGE RANGES; PFC CONVERTERS; POWER FACTOR CORRECTION CONVERTERS; POWER FACTOR CORRECTIONS;

DC POWER TRANSMISSION; DESIGN; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

DC-DC CONVERTERS;

EID: 82155192322     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2011.2145391     Document Type: Article

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