Analysis of soft-switching isolated time-sharing multiple-input converters for DC distribution systems

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1783-1794

  Yu, Sheng Yang ^a   Kwasinski, Alexis ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Active clamping; Double polarity configuration; Multiple input converter (MIC); Time sharing (TS)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879394493     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2012.2211040     Document Type: Article

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