An isolated multicell intercell transformer converter for applications with a high step-up ratio

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1107-1119

  Forest, François ^a   Meynard, Thierry A ^b,c   Labouré, Eric ^d,e   Gelis, Bertrand ^a   Huselstein, Jean Jacques ^a   Brandelero, Julio Cezar ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER II   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c Cirtem SA   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^e Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

Interleaved converters

Indexed keywords

BUCK-BOOST; CONVERTER TOPOLOGIES; COUPLED INDUCTOR; FLYBACK CONVERTERS; HIGH VOLTAGE NETWORKS; INTERCELL; INTERLEAVED CONVERTERS; LOW VOLTAGES; MULTICELL; MULTICELL CONVERTERS; NONISOLATED; POWER CONDITIONS; POWER SOURCES; STEP-UP RATIO; TEST BENCHES;

ELECTRIC TRANSFORMER TESTING; POWER TRANSFORMERS; TOPOLOGY;

DC-DC CONVERTERS;

EID: 84867785674     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2012.2209679     Document Type: Article

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