A novel ZVZCS full-bridge DC/DC converter used for electric vehicles

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2752-2769

  Pahlevaninezhad, Majid ^a   Das, Pritam ^b   Drobnik, Josef ^c   Jain, Praveen K ^a   Bakhshai, Alireza ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MURATA POWER SOLUTIONS   (Canada)

^c FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR INC   (United States)

Author keywords

DC DC converter; full bridge converter; lagging leg; leading leg; shoot through; snubber capacitor; Zero Current Switching (ZCS); Zero Voltage Switching (ZVS); Zero Voltage Zero Current Switching (ZVZCS)

Indexed keywords

FULL BRIDGE CONVERTERS; LAGGING LEG; LEADING LEG; SHOOT-THROUGH; SNUBBER CAPACITORS; ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING (ZVS); ZERO VOLTAGE ZERO CURRENT SWITCHING; ZERO-CURRENT SWITCHING;

DC-DC CONVERTERS; DIODES; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC VEHICLES; SOFT SWITCHING; VOLTAGE REGULATORS; ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 84859077570     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2011.2178103     Document Type: Article

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