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The efficiency and power density of those systems are being improved by newer semiconductor technology with higher switching frequency and reduced appearance of switching losses. Adverserly newer transistors represent a significant share of device cost and have a negative impact on total cost in case of a sole transistor exchange. The paper describes a perspective way how to minimize the dimension and optimize cost of isolated AC\/DC converters by adapting to modern topologies.<\/p>\n<p>The original article is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/8778151\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ieee.org<\/a>, but you can <a href=\"https:\/\/finepower.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/EPE2019_Fuhr_Kupka-Single_Stage_Isolated_ACDC_Converter_with_PFC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">download a copy directly from our website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tobias Fuhr and Tomas Kupka from Finepower presented the latest developments in the field of EV Onboard-Chargers during the 20th Conference on Electric Power Engineering (EPE): The current market of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,45],"tags":[196,198,199,33,142,197,200,30],"class_list":["post-2998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engineering","category-latest-publications","tag-ac-dc-converter","tag-battery-charging","tag-epe-conference","tag-finepower-en","tag-gan-en","tag-isolated-converter","tag-llc-en","tag-pfc-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - 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