A High-Voltage DC-DC Converter with Low-Voltage Stress and Output Current Tripler

Author

Song, Tao ; Chung, Henry ; Ioinovici, Adrain

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., City Univ. of Hong Kong, Kowloon

fYear

2006

fDate

18-22 June 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

A high-voltage DC-DC converter with low voltage stress on the switches and output current tripler is presented in this paper. This converter exhibits three distinct features. First, the voltage stress on the switches is only one-third of the input voltage, so that switches of low voltage rating and thus of low on-resistance can be used. This can reduce the conduction loss. Second, all switches are soft-switched, so that the switching loss can be reduced. Third, the output circuit is a current tripler, so that the output current capacity and thus the power handling capacity of the converter are increased. A 4.8 kW, 1000 V/48 V dc-dc converter prototype has been built and tested. Experimental results are favorably compared with theoretical predictions

Keywords

DC-DC power convertors; switching convertors; conduction loss; high-voltage DC-DC converter; low-voltage stress; output current capacity; output current tripler; power handling capacity; switching loss; Analog-digital conversion; DC-DC power converters; Hafnium; Low voltage; Power conversion; Rectifiers; Stress; Switches; Switching circuits; Switching converters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics Specialists Conference, 2006. PESC '06. 37th IEEE

Conference_Location

Jeju

ISSN

0275-9306

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9716-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PESC.2006.1712227

Filename

1712227