Journal of Power Electronics

The Korean Institute of Power Electronics (전력전자학회)
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Comparison of Active-Clamp and ZVT Techniques Applied to Tapped-Inductor DC-DC Converter with Low Voltage and Bigh Current

  • Abe, Seiya (Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Systems Eng., Kyushu University) ;
  • Ninomiya, Tamotsu (Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Systems Eng., Kyushu University)
  • Published : 2002.07.01
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Abstract

This paper compares three kinds of soft-switching circuits from viewpoints of surge suppression, load characteristic, and power efficiency for a tapped-inductor buck converter with low voltage and high current. As a result, these soft-switching techniques have achieved much higher efficiency of 80 % when compared with a hard-switching buck converter for the output condition of 1V and 20A.

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