A Comparative Study of Power Supply Architectures in Wireless EV Charging Systems

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 6408-6422

  Esteban, Bryan ^a   Sid Ahmed, Maher ^a   Kar, Narayan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Inductive Power Transfer; LCL Power Supply; Resonant Inverter; SLC Power Supply; Wireless EV charging

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIOUS VEHICLES; CHARGING (BATTERIES); EFFICIENCY; TOPOLOGY; ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

CLOSED LOOP CONTROLLERS; CONSTANT CURRENT SOURCE; EV CHARGING; INDUCTIVE POWER TRANSFER; LIGHT-LOAD EFFICIENCY; POWER SUPPLY; RESONANT INVERTERS; WIRELESS ELECTRIC VEHICLES;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84937239418     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2015.2440256     Document Type: Article

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