A flicker-free electrolytic capacitor-less AC-DC LED driver

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 4540-4548

  Wang, Shu ^e   Ruan, Xinbo ^a,b   Yao, Kai ^e   Tan, Siew Chong ^c   Yang, Yang ^a   Ye, Zhihong ^d  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^d LITE ON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION   (Taiwan)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Driver; electrolytic capacitor; flicker; light emitting diode; power factor correction (PFC)

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR CORRECTION; ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITORS; POWER ELECTRONICS; RECTIFYING CIRCUITS;

DRIVER; ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITOR-LESS; FLICKER; LED DRIVERS; LIGHTEMITTING DIODE; OPERATING LIFETIME; POWER FACTOR CORRECTION; POWER FACTOR CORRECTIONS; POWER-FACTOR-CORRECTION CONVERTERS; PULSATING CURRENTS;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

EID: 84863002373     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2011.2180026     Document Type: Article

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