Design and performance evaluation of a 200 °C interleaved boost converter

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1691-1699

  Kosai, Hiroyuki ^a   Scofield, James ^b   McNeal, Seana ^b   Jordan, Brett ^b   Ray, Biswajit ^c  

^a Universal Energy Systems Inc   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coupled inductor; dc dc converter; High temperature; Interleaved boost converter (IBC); Silicon carbide (SiC).

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880710095     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2012.2208124     Document Type: Article

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