An Improved Zero Voltage Switching Forward DC/DC Converter For Reducing Switching Losses

  • Kim, Eun-Soo (P.E Division, Korea Electro-technology Research Institute) ;
  • Joe, Kee-Yeon (P.E Division, Korea Electro-technology Research Institute) ;
  • Park, Hae-Young (P.E Division, Korea Electro-technology Research Institute) ;
  • Kim, Yoon-Ho (Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Chung-Ang University) ;
  • Kim, Choon-Same (Dept. of Control & Instrumentation Engineering, Samchok National University)
  • 발행 : 1998.10.01

초록

To achieve high efficiency in high power and high frequency applications, reduction of switching losses and noise is very important. In this paper, an improved zero voltage switching forward dc/dc converter is proposed. The proposed converter is constructed by using energy recovery snubbers in parallel with the main switches and output diodes of the conventional forward dc/dc converter. Due to the use of the energy recovery snubbers in the primary and secondary side, the proposed converter achieves zero-voltage-switching turn-off without switching losses for switching devices and output rectification diodes. The complete operating principles and experimental results will be presented.

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