Comparison of half-bridge off-line, ZCS-QRC and ZVS-MRC |
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Authors: | Jovanovic M.M. Farrington R. Lee F.C. |
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Affiliation: | Dept. of Electr. Eng., Virginia Polytech. Inst. & State Univ., Blacksburg, VA; |
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Abstract: | The performance of the half-bridge (HB) zero-current-switched (ZCS) quasi-resonant converter (QRC) and zero-voltage-switched (ZVS) multiresonant converter (MRC) is compared with respect to their efficiency, input voltage range, semiconductor stresses, power density, and reliability. The efficiency of the HB ZVS-MRC at a given nominal input is shown to be highly dependent on the range of the input voltage, and it suffers when the converter has to be designed to cover a wide range. However, this is not the case for the HB ZCS-QRC. Experimental versions of the HB ZCS-QRC and HB ZVS-MRC were designed for the input voltage range from 150 to 350 V and a maximum output power of 100 W, under the same constraints, to facilitate their comparison |
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