High step-up boost converter integrated with a transformer-assisted auxiliary circuit employing quasi-resonant operation

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1974-1984

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

^a ABB CORPORATE RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

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

Author keywords

Coupled inductor; high step up converter; quasi resonant voltage doubler

Indexed keywords

AUXILIARY CIRCUITS; BOOST CONVERTER; COUPLED INDUCTOR; HIGH-VOLTAGES; INPUT CURRENT RIPPLE; LOW-VOLTAGE; NONISOLATED; QUASI-RESONANT VOLTAGE-DOUBLER; REDUCED SWITCH; RESONANT TANKS; REVERSE RECOVERY; SIMPLE STRUCTURES; STEP-UP CONVERTER; TURN-OFF LOSS; HIGH STEP-UP CONVERTERS; QUASI RESONANT VOLTAGE DOUBLERS;

CAPACITORS;

COUPLED CIRCUITS;

EID: 84857433222     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2011.2170223     Document Type: Article

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