An Efficient Active LC Snubber for Forward Converters

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1522-1531

  Jinno, Masahito ^a   Chen, Po Yuan ^a   Lin, Kun Chih ^a  

^a I SHOU UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Active LC snubber; flyback auxiliary output; synchronous rectification

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008019133     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: 19410107     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2009.2014237     Document Type: Article

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