Zero-voltage-switching PWM three-level converter with current-doubler-rectifier

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1523-1532

  Ruan, Xinbo ^a   Li, Bin ^b   Wang, Jiangang ^a   Li, Jinzhong ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^b E Power Co Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

Current doubler rectifier (CDR); Pulse width modulation (PWM); Three level (TL) converter; Zero current switching (ZCS); Zero voltage switching (ZVS)

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; DIODES; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; INDUCTANCE; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

BLOCKING CAPACITOR; CURRENT DOUBLER RECTIFIER; RECTIFIER DIODES; THREE LEVEL CONVERTER; ZERO CURRENT SWITCHING ZCS); ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING (ZVS);

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 9244228527     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2004.836682     Document Type: Article

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