Very high frequency half bridge DC/DC converter

Author

Madsen, Mickey P. ; Knott, Arnold ; Andersen, Michael A. E.

Author_Institution

Tech. Univ. of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

fYear

2014

fDate

16-20 March 2014

Firstpage

1409

Lastpage

1414

Abstract

This paper presents the first, off chip, class DE (resonant half bridge) converter working in the Very High Frequency (VHF) range. The benefits of using half bridge circuits both in the inverter and rectifier part of a VHF resonant dc/dc converter are analyzed and design equations for all components in the power stage are given. The circuit has been simulated to verify the accuracy of the presented equations and an efficiency of 89% has been shown. A prototype has been implemented with self-oscillating resonant gate drives driving the switches. The prototype has been used to drive an LED string and shows an efficiency of 85% at 29 MHz with 130 V input and 13.4 W output. The efficiency was above 82% in the range 110-150 V input with output power between 10.3 W and 16.5 W.

Keywords

DC-DC power convertors; bridge circuits; driver circuits; light emitting diodes; rectifiers; resonant invertors; LED string; class DE converter; efficiency 85 percent; efficiency 89 percent; frequency 29 MHz; half bridge DC-DC converter; inverter; power 10.3 W to 16.5 W; rectifier; resonant half bridge converter; self-oscillating resonant gate drives; switches; very high frequency DC-DC converter; voltage 110 V to 150 V; Inverters; Logic gates; MOSFET; Power generation; Resonant frequency; Schottky diodes; Switching frequency;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), 2014 Twenty-Ninth Annual IEEE

Conference_Location

Fort Worth, TX

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APEC.2014.6803491

Filename

6803491