Steady-State Characteristics of Resonant Switched Capacitor Converters

  • Shoyama Masahito (Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University) ;
  • Deriha Fumitoshi (Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University) ;
  • Ninomiya Tamotsu (Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University)
  • Published : 2005.07.01

Abstract

Conventional switched capacitor converters have an inherent drawback that their efficiency decreases as the output current increases. This inherent drawback is due to a periodical forced charging and discharging operation in the internal switched capacitors accompanied by a large capacitor current. Their efficiency can not be increased by decreasing its internal resistance. As a result, conventional switched capacitor converters have been limited to uses with a very small output current. To solve this problem we presented a novel switched capacitor converter topology that uses a resonant operation instead of the forced charging and discharging operation. Its advantage over a conventional switched capacitor converter is higher efficiency even in a high output current region. In this paper, the operation analysis and steady-state characteristics are described in detail for a half buck type switched capacitor converter, and they are confirmed by experimentation.

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References

  1. M. Shoyama, T. Naka, T. Ninomiya, 'Resonant Switched Capacitor Converter with High Efficiency', PESC'04 Record, pp.3780-3786, June 2004