Phase-shift-controlled three-level converter with reduced voltage stress featuring ZVS over the full operation range

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2140-2150

  Duarte, Jorge L ^a   Lokos, Janos ^b   Van Horck, Frank B M ^b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b Heliox BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Multilevel; phase shift control; wide range converter; zero voltage switching (ZVS)

Indexed keywords

BATTERY CHARGERS; CONVERTER TOPOLOGIES; FIXED SWITCHING FREQUENCY; FULL-LOAD; MULTILEVEL; NOMINAL LOADS; OPERATION RANGE; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; PHASE SHIFT CONTROL; THREE-LEVEL CONVERTERS; VOLTAGE STRESS; WIDE-RANGE CONVERTER;

ELECTRIC VEHICLES; TOPOLOGY;

ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

EID: 84870539242     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2012.2215345     Document Type: Article

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