• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.375-382
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• 2018

A novel active controlled primary current cutting-off zero-voltage and zero-current switching (ZVZCS) PWM three-level dc-dc converter (TLC) is proposed in this paper. The proposed converter has some attractive advantages. The OFF voltage on the primary switches is only Vin/2 due to the series connected structure. The leading-leg switches can obtain zero-voltage switching (ZVS), and the lagging-leg switches can achieve zero-current switching (ZCS) in a wide load range. Two MOSFETs, referred to as cutting-off MOSFETs, with an ultra-low on-state resistance are used as active controlled primary current cutting-off components, and the added conduction loss can be neglected. The added MOSFETs are switched ON and OFF with ZCS that is irrelevant to the load current. Thus, the auxiliary switching loss can be significantly minimized. In addition, these MOSFETs are not series connected in the circuit loop of the dc input bus bar and the primary switches, which results in a low parasitic inductance. The operation principle and some relevant analyses are provided, and a 6-kW laboratory prototype is built to verify the proposed converter.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.389-398
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• 2015

This paper presents a 1.92 kW resonant converter for medium voltage applications that uses low voltage stress MOSFETs (500V) to achieve zero voltage switching (ZVS) turn-on. In the proposed converter, four MOSFETs are connected in series to limit the voltage stress of the power switches at half of the input voltage. In addition, three resonant circuits are adopted to share the load current and to reduce the current stress of the passive components. Furthermore, the transformer primary and secondary windings are connected in series to balance the output diode currents for medium power applications. Split capacitors are adopted in each resonant circuit to reduce the current stress of the resonant capacitors. Two balance capacitors are also used to automatically balance the input capacitor voltage in every switching cycle. Based on the circuit characteristics of the resonant converter, the MOSFETs are turned on under ZVS. If the switching frequency is less than the series resonant frequency, the rectifier diodes can be turned off under zero current switching (ZCS). Experimental results from a prototype with a 750-800 V input and a 48V/40A output are provided to verify the theoretical analysis and the effectiveness of the proposed converter.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.36S no.2
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• pp.131-137
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• 1999

New zero voltage switched(ZVS) converter in which main switch is switched at zero voltage is proposed. A resonant inductor of conventional ZVS PW converter is replaced to two small saturable inductors in order to reduce conduction loss of auxiliary switch. Therefore, the switching loss of main switch is very low, and conduction losses of the main and auxiliary switch are lowered. The ZVS and above characteristics are verified by experimental results for a 200 kHz operation.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2002.07a
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• pp.498-501
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• 2002

In the conventional PWM converter, high-frequency switching techniques was used for high-density of energy, but occurred a lot of problems such as switching losses, switching voltage/current stresses, EMI(Electromgnetic Interference) and so on. To overcome these problems, various soft switching techniques have been presented. However these techniques are focused on reducing switching losses and voltage/current stresses . The simulation and experimental results are shown that the active clamp ZVS flyback converter with the proposed RPWM(Random Pulse Width Modulation) technique reduces the conducted noise.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.161-168
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• 2004

This paper presents a new circuit topology of high-frequency soft switching commutation boost type PWM chopper-fed DC-DC power converter with a loadside auxiliary passive resonant snubber. In the proposed boost type chopper-fed DC-DC power converter circuit operating under a principle of ZCS turn-on and ZVS turn-off commutation, the capacitor and inductor in the auxiliary passive resonant circuit works as the lossless resonant snubber. In addition to this, the voltage and current peak stresses of the power semiconductor devices as well as their di/dt or dv/dt dynamic stress can be effectively reduced by the single passive resonant snubber treated here. Moreover, it is proved that chopper-fed DC-DC power converter circuit topology with an auxiliary passive resonant snubber could solve some problems on the conventional boost type hard switching PWM chopper-fed DC-DC power converter. The simulation results of this converter are illustrated and discussed as compared with the experimental ones. The feasible effectiveness of this soft witching DC-DC power converter with a single passive resonant snubber is verified by the 5kW, 20kHz experimental breadboard set up to be built and tested for new energy utilization such as solar photovoltaic generators and fuel sell generators.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.102-110
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• 2016

In this paper, a high-frequency dual mode control LLC resonant converter with wide input voltage range is proposed through zero voltage switching (ZVS) under the universal line input voltage and every load conditions. Conventional small power adapter driving should be satisfied with universal line input voltage because it has no power factor correction circuit regulation. The conventional LLC resonant converter for an adapter can reduce the size of transformer in terms of high-frequency driving and ZVS. However, this converter has a disadvantage in terms of design of resonant tank under various input voltages because the frequency modulation range is very wide to satisfy voltage conversion gain. Compared with the conventional one, the proposed LLC converter can be adapted to universal line input voltage and high-frequency driving because it is controlled by pulse width modulation and pulse frequency modulation with control voltage. The validity of the proposed LLC converter is proved through the 60 W prototype.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1999.07f
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• pp.2685-2687
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• 1999

This paper is concerned on developing DC-DC converter. In contrast to resonant converter, this converter requires no external resonant elements and operates with constant switching frequency. In conventional PWM converter, two MOSFET switches of the converter are simultaneously turned on and turned off. In presented converter, to achieve Zero Voltage Switching, the two legs of the bridge are operated DC-DC converter is phase shifted. Phase shifted Full Bridge ZVS PWM Converter have an effect on the power system. Operation principle and features are illustrated by the experiment results from 50W, 250kHz with MOSFET switch.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.209-214
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• 2000

In this paper, we propose a FB ZVT(full bridge zero voltage transition) PWM OC~OC converter which uses a a saturable reactor, instead of two additional switches, to achieve zero voltage switching. The conventional h high frequency phase shifted FB ZVT PWM OC-OC converter has a disadvantage that a circulating current f flows through high frequency transformer and switching devices during the free-wheeling interval. Due to this c circulating current, conduction loss increases. In order to reduce such the loss as this, we propose circuit of r reducing conduction loss at the secondary side of transformer. The operation principles are explained in detail a and the several interesting simulations and experimental results verify the validity of the proposed circuit.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.19-28
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• 1997

A simple AC complex circuit analysis for LCL type series resonant converter with phase shift control is proposed. Based on these analyses, a set of characteristic curves which allows a optimal design procedure for this converter is shown, without increasing the volt-ampere rating of tank circuit. Especially, inverter output peak current can be minimized in both full load and partial load conditions. The presented design considerations can make the load range wide from full loads to light loads achieving turn-on with zero voltage switching (ZVS) operation. The simulation and experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed design algorithms.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.518-525
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• 2005

The paper proposes a novel ZVZCS PWM converter. It enables the main switch to be turned on/off with both zero voltage and zero current, the auxiliary switch to be turned on/off with ZCS, the rectifier diode to be turned on/off with ZVS. Moreover, this proposed soft switching technique is suitable for not only minority carrier device but also majority carrier semiconductor device. Since auxiliary resonant circuit of the proposed boost converter is placed out of the main power path, therefore, there are no voltage and current stresses on the main switch and diode. The operation of the proposed boost converter is explained and analyzed theoretical and experimentally, from a prototype operating at 100KHz.