Low peak current class E resonant full-wave low dv/dt rectifier driven by a voltage generator

Author

Bîrcã-Gãlãteanu, Serban

Author_Institution

IUFM, Acad. of Nantes, France

Volume

1

fYear

1999

fDate

36373

Firstpage

469

Abstract

Full-wave rectifiers allow a halving of the diode peak voltages (or currents), but these values may still be high at duty factor values far from 0.5. The first member of a new family of class E resonant full-wave rectifiers is proposed and analyzed, whose peak diode current is equal to the load current. Diode voltage slopes are ideally zero after switch-off only for duty factors larger than 0.5. The circuit contains two rectifier diodes but a single LC circuit. All major parasitic reactive elements are included in the rectifier topology. Basic parameters of the circuit are derived as functions of the diodes´ duty factor, using time-domain analysis. Experimental waveforms and measurements agree with simulations and calculations

Keywords

AC-DC power convertors; equivalent circuits; rectifying circuits; resonant power convertors; switching circuits; time-domain analysis; class E resonant full-wave low dv/dt rectifier; diode peak currents; diode peak voltages; diode voltage slopes; duty factors; load current; parasitic reactive elements; rectifier topology; single LC circuit; time-domain analysis; Circuit topology; Diodes; Filters; Inductance; Inductors; RLC circuits; Rectifiers; Resonance; Resonant frequency; Zero voltage switching;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics Specialists Conference, 1999. PESC 99. 30th Annual IEEE

Conference_Location

Charleston, SC

ISSN

0275-9306

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5421-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PESC.1999.789048

Filename

789048