• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.156-163
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• 2009

In this paper a family of zero current transition PWM converters which employs a simple auxiliary circuit is introduced. This soft switched auxiliary circuit is only composed of a switch and a capacitor. The proposed converters are analyzed and various operating modes of the ZCT flyback converter are discussed. Design considerations are presented and the experimental results of the ZCT flyback converter laboratory prototype are illustrated. The experimental results confirm the validity of theoretical analysis.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.74-78
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• 1998

The shortcomings of zero-voltage-transition PWM converter is discussed and a new family of topologies of zero-voltage-transition PWM converter with soft-switched auxiliary switch is introduced. The experiments on a 290W boost converter and a 100W forward converter are carried out to prove the circuit. The efficiency increment of the new circuits are 2-5% comparing to hard switching circuits, and the switching noise is also greatly reduced.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.41-55
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• 2017

This study proposes a novel zero voltage transition (ZVT) pulse width modulation (PWM) DC-DC interleaved boost converter with an active snubber cell. All the semiconductor devices in the converter turn on and off with soft switching to reduce the switching power losses and improve the overall efficiency. Through the interleaved approach, the current stresses of the main devices and the ripple of the output voltage and input current are reduced. The main switches turn on with ZVT and turn off with zero voltage switching (ZVS). The auxiliary switch turns on with zero current switching (ZCS) and turns off with ZVS. In addition, the snubber cell does not create additional current or voltage stress on the main switches and main diodes. The proposed converter can smoothly achieve soft switching characteristics even under light load conditions. The theoretical analysis and operating stages of the proposed converter are made for the D > 50% and D < 50% modes. Finally, a prototype of the proposed converter is implemented, and the experimental results are given in detail for 500 W and 50 kHz. The overall efficiency of the proposed converter reached 95.5% at nominal output power.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.1445-1453
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• 2017

In this study, a new zero-voltage transition (ZVT) buck converter with coupled inductor using a synchronous rectifier and a lossless clamp circuit is proposed. The regular buck converter with tapped inductor has extended duty cycle for high step-down applications. However, the leakage inductance of the coupled inductor produced considerable voltage spikes across the switch. A lossless clamp circuit is used in the proposed converter to overcome this problem. The freewheeling diode was replaced with a synchronous rectifier to reduce conduction losses in the proposed converter. ZVT conditions at turn-on and turn-off instants were provided for the main switch. The synchronous rectifier switch turned on under zero-voltage switching, and the auxiliary switch turn-on and turn-off were under zero-current condition. Experimental results of a 100 W-100 kHz prototype are provided to justify the validity of the theoretical analysis. Moreover, the conducted electromagnetic interference of the proposed converter is measured and compared with its hard-switching counterpart.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.1592-1601
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• 2014

In this study, a novel single phase soft switched power factor correction (PFC) converter is developed with active snubber cell. The active snubber cell provides boost switch both to turn on with zero voltage transition (ZVT) and to turn off with zero current transition (ZCT). As the switching losses in the proposed converter are too low, L and C size can be reduced by increasing the operating frequency. Also, all the semiconductor devices operate with soft switching. There is no additional voltage stress in the boost switch and diode. The proposed converter has a simple structure, low cost and ease of control as well. It has a simple control loop to achieve near unity power factor with the aid of the UC3854. In this study, detailed steady state analysis of the proposed converter is presented and this theoretical analysis is verified by a prototype of 100 kHz and 500 W converter. The measured power factor and efficiency are 0.99 and 97.9% at full load.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.464-470
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• 2022

A new type of soft-switching forward converter is proposed in this study. By adding only a few components, the inductor, diode, switch, and capacitor exhibit higher efficiency than the conventional forward converter. Therefore, the switching losses of the proposed forward converter are considerably reduced compared with those of the conventional forward converter. In addition, the reset winding is not used because of the capacitor employed in the auxiliary circuit. The auxiliary capacitor is adopted for zero-current-transition operation and for dissipating magnetization energy. The performance of the proposed forward converter is validated using experimental results from a 60 W, single-output, forward converter prototype, and design guidelines are presented.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2001.07b
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• pp.950-952
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• 2001

This paper proposes a new zero-current transition (ZCT) pulse-width modulation (PWM) switch cell that overcomes the limitations of the conventional ZCT converters. The proposed ZCT cell provides zero-current-switching (ZCS) condition for the main switch and the auxiliary switch. The conduction loss and current stress of the main switch are minimized, since the circulating current for the soft switching does not flow through the main switch. The proposed ZCT PWM switch cell is suitable for the high power applications employing IGBTs. Design guidelines with a design example are described and verified by experimental results from the 1 kW prototype boost converter operating at 70kHz.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.4 no.6
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• pp.561-569
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• 1999

In this paper, the diode bridge-type ZVT(Zero- Voltage Transition) inverter is proposed. It consists of one a auxiliaI${\gamma}$ switch, three resonant inductors and six blockin당 diodes. So, the main advantage of the proposed t torXJ!ogy is the reduction of the auxiliar${\gamma}$ switch compare to the conventional ZVT inverter. The topology of t the propostxl lVT inverter is analyztxl with a description of the control conditions based on the load current. A And the resonant period control for operating the proposed inverter optimally is discussed by using resonant i inductor current ftxxlback. To verify the proposed topology, the detailed simulation and exJX끼mental results i indicate that zero volta당e operation during transition can be achieved.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.10c
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• pp.217-219
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• 2005

This paper presents an improved ZCT (Zero-Current-Transition) PWM DC/DC Boost Converter without additional current stress and conduction loss on the main switch during the resonance period of the auxiliary cell. The auxiliary cell consists of a resonance inductor, a resonant capacitor, an auxiliary switch and the Zero-Current-Switching ranges of the main and the auxiliary switch of the proposed converters are entirely achieved by operating the auxiliary cell. Then Improved ZCT soft switching converter will be discussed. Therefore, the proposed converter has a high efficiency. To show the superiority of this converter is verified through the experiment with a 640W, 50kHz prototype converter.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.139-144
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• 2003

We report the results of extensive mixed mode simulations and theoretical analysis to quantify the contribution of the edge direct tunneling (EDT) current on the total gate leakage current of 80nm NMOSFET with SiO2 gate dielectric. It is shown that EDT has a profound impact on basic analog circuit building blocks such as sample-hold (S/H) circuit and the current mirror circuit. A transistor design methodology with zero gate-source/drain overlap is proposed to mitigate the EDT effect. This results in lower voltage droop in S/H application and better current matching in current mirror application. It is demonstrated that decreasing the overlap length also improves the basic analog circuit performance metrics of the transistor. The transistor with zero gate-source/drain overlap, results in better transconductance, input resistance, output resistance, intrinsic gain and unity gain transition frequency.