Multi-Level Active-Clamp Forward Converter

  • Park, Ki-Bum (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Kim, Chong-Eun (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Moon, Gun-Woo (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Youn, Myung-Joong (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
  • Published : 2007.07.02

Abstract

Conventional active-clamp forward converter shows good performance in low power applications, however it suffers from a high voltage stress of switch and is not suitable for high input voltage applications. To solve this problem, a new multi-level active-clamp forward converter is proposed in this paper. Utilizing low rating switches, the proposed converter features high efficiency and low cost promising for high input voltage applications.

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