Improving light and intermediate load efficiencies of buck converters with planar nonlinear inductors and variable on time control

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 342-353

  Wang, Laili ^a   Pei, Yunqing ^a   Yang, Xu ^a   Qin, Yang ^a   Wang, Zhaoan ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Efficiency improvement; Low temperature cofired ceramic (LTCC); Nonlinear inductor; Portable electronic devices; Variable on time control

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT; LOW-TEMPERATURE COFIRED CERAMIC (LTCC); NON-LINEAR INDUCTORS; PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICES; TIME CONTROL;

EFFICIENCY; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT;

DC-DC CONVERTERS;

EID: 83655190875     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2011.2152859     Document Type: Article

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