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L. Bede, G. Gohil, M. Ciobotaru, T. Kerekes, R. Teodorescu and V. G. Agelidis

• Published in: 41st Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Yokohama, 2015
• DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2015.7392723
• Publication date: 2015
• Citation for published version: L. Bede, G. Gohil, M. Ciobotaru, T. Kerekes, R. Teodorescu and V. G. Agelidis,
”Circulating current controller for parallel interleaved converters using PR controllers,” IECON 2015 - 41st
Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Yokohama, 2015, pp. 003997-004002.

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