High efficiency 20-400 MHz PWM converters using air-core inductors and monolithic power stages in a normally-off GaN process

Conference Proceedings - IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition - APEC

Volumn 2016-May, Issue , 2016, Pages 580-586

  Sepahvand, Alihossein ^a   Zhang, Yuanzhe ^a   Maksimović, Dragan ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DC-DC CONVERTERS; EFFICIENCY; GALLIUM NITRIDE; POWER ELECTRONICS; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AIR CORE INDUCTORS; BOOTSTRAP CAPACITORS; BOOTSTRAP DIODES; BOOTSTRAP TECHNIQUE; HIGH-EFFICIENCY; LEVEL-SHIFTING; OVERALL EFFICIENCY; SYNCHRONOUS BUCK CONVERTER;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 84973597899     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APEC.2016.7467930     Document Type: Conference Paper

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