The effect of switching frequency, duty ratio, and dead times on a synchronous boost rectifier for low power electromagnetic energy harvesters

Conference Proceedings - IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition - APEC

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 667-674

  Proynov, P P ^a   Szarka, G D ^a   Stark, B H ^a   McNeill, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BOOST RECTIFIER; CONTROL PARAMETERS; CONVERTER EFFICIENCY; DUTY RATIOS; GATE DRIVE CIRCUITS; H-BRIDGES; INPUT IMPEDANCE; LOW POWER; MAXIMUM AVAILABLE POWER; OUTPUT POWER; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; SINGLE STAGE; SWITCHING DEVICES; SWITCHING INSTANTS; SWITCHING PARAMETERS; SWITCHING PATTERNS; VIBRATIONAL ENERGIES;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ENERGY HARVESTING; EXHIBITIONS; POWER ELECTRONICS; RECTIFYING CIRCUITS; SWITCHING FREQUENCY;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 84860171338     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APEC.2012.6165890     Document Type: Conference Paper

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