Engineering design of lossless passive soft switching methods for PWM converters. I. With minimum voltage stress circuit cells.

Engineering design of lossless passive soft switching methods for PWM converters. I. With minimum voltage stress circuit cells.

This paper presents the analysis and design methodology of lossless passive soft switching converters from an engineering perspective. The circuit operation and soft switching loss analysis are detailed and an intuitive procedure is derived that enables quick and accurate design. Analysis is given f...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:IEEE Transactions on power electronics 16, 3 (2001).
Main Author: Smith, K.M., Jr
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
PFC boost converter.
PWM converters.
Circuit operation.
Engineering design.
Intuitive procedure.
Lossless passive soft switching methods.
Minimum switch voltage stress.
Minimum voltage stress circuit cells.
Simple loss model.
Soft switching circuit cells.
Soft switching converters synthesis.
Soft switching loss analysis.
Switching losses minimisation.