A new, soft-switched boost converter with isolated active snubber

Author

Jovanovic, Milan M. ; Jang, Yungtaek

Author_Institution

Delta Power Electron. Lab. Inc., Blacksburg, VA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1998

fDate

15-19 Feb 1998

Firstpage

1084

Abstract

A boost converter which employs an isolated active snubber to reduce the losses caused by the reverse-recovery characteristic of the boost rectifier and the turn-on discharge loss of the output capacitance of the boost switch is described. The proposed isolated active snubber consists of a coupled inductor, clamp capacitor, and ground-referenced N-type MOSFET. The performance of the proposed converter is evaluated on an 1-kW, universal-line-range, boost input-current shaper

Keywords

DC-DC power convertors; MOSFET; capacitance; capacitors; inductors; losses; snubbers; switching circuits; 1 kW; boost input-current shaper; boost rectifier; clamp capacitor; coupled inductor; ground-referenced N-type MOSFET; isolated active snubber; losses reduction; output capacitance; reverse-recovery characteristic; soft-switched boost converter; turn-on discharge loss; Inductors; MOSFET circuits; RLC circuits; Rectifiers; Resonance; Snubbers; Switches; Switching circuits; Switching converters; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, 1998. APEC '98. Conference Proceedings 1998., Thirteenth Annual

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4340-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APEC.1998.654032

Filename

654032