Current Self-Balance Mechanism in Multiphase Buck Converter

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1600-1606

  García, Oscar ^a   Zumel, Pablo ^b   Castro de, Angel ^c   Alou, Pedro ^a   Cobos, José A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

DC DC power conversion

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008014575     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: 19410107     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2009.2013859     Document Type: Article

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