Soft Commutation Isolated DC-DC Converters

Introduces and explains soft-commutated isolated DCDC converters widely used in power supply Includes numerous worked examples plus problems and solutions Covers all the important converter types, including LLC with frequency modulation (FM), nonresonant converters with pulse width modulation (PWM) and ZVS (zero voltage switching)

Autorentext

Ivo Barbi founded the Brazilian Power Electronics Society (SOBRAEP) and the Brazilian Power Electronics Conference (COBEP) in 1990, and the Brazilian Institute of Power Electronics and Renewable Energy (IBEPE) in 2016. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, President of the Brazilian Institute of Power Electronics and Renewable Energy (IBEPE), researcher at the Solar Energy Research Laboratory and Professor of Electrical Engineering at Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil).

Fabiana Pottker is a professor of Power Electronics at the Federal Technological University of Parana in Brazil in the Department of Electronics Engineering. Her current research interest includes power electronics and the application of real-time embedded systems to power electronics.

Inhalt
Basic Electric Circuits with Switches, Diodes and Thyristors.- Series Resonant Converter with Zero Current Switching (ZCS).- Series Resonant Converter with Clamping of Resonant Capacitor Voltage and Zero Current Switching (ZCS).- Series Resonant Converter with Clamping of the Resonant Capacitor Voltage, Pulse Width Modulation and Zero Current Switching (ZCS).- Series Resonant Converter with Frequency Modulation and Zero Voltage Switching (ZVS).- LCC Resonant Converter.- Full-Bridge ZVS-PWM Converter with Capacitive Output Filter.- Full-Bridge ZVS-PWM Converter with Inductive Output Filter.- Neutral Point Clamped ZVS-PWM Converter with Inductive Output Filter.- Asymmetrical Half-Bridge ZVS-PWM Converter.- Active Clamped Forward ZVS-PWM Converter.