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In this paper, we present a new technique to unify and intensify the magnetic fields that results in higher performance of Anisotropic Magneto-Resistive (AMR) current sensors and consequently develop a closed loop controller for 100W synchronous GaN buck converter at 1MHz. The closed loop operation of high switching frequency converters at high power has always been a big challenge due to lack of...
In order to reduce output voltage harmonics and improve efficiency, a symmetrical hybrid nine-level inverter for high speed open-winding motor drive system is presented in this paper. Each phase of this inverter is composed of a five-level DC/DC converter and an H-bridge. The DC/DC converter is operated at high frequency with low voltage MOSFETs and the H-bridge is operated at fundamental frequency...
Automotive applications require a wide input voltage range (4.5 V to 42 V) and high frequency operation for point-of-load low power (5 W-25 W) converters. The conventional buck converter, currently being used for this application, is simple and cost effective but it is less efficient at high switching frequency (>MHz) and noisy due to its hard-switching operation. A zero-voltage-transition (ZVT)...
Controlled Power Converters are extensively used in industrial applications as they can adapt the electrical energy as required by the application. However, these devices must be properly commutated in order to control voltages and currents. Indeed, power converters are known to be multivariable, coupled, and nonlinear systems; therefore, the control technique needs to be chosen carefully. There are...
For cascaded system, interactions among individually designed power subsystems may cause the instability of the whole system. It has been shown recently that the series-virtual-impedance (SVI) control strategy can stabilize the cascaded system via shaping the load input impedance in a very small frequency to minimize its impact on the original load converter. In this paper, a further investigation...
This paper analyzes the harmonic instability due to interactions among power converters and negative incremental impedance of load converters in a dual active bridge (DAB) converter enabled DC microgrid. Based on derived system impedances, it is found that the challenge of a DAB converter enabled microgrid stability is low frequency terminal behaviors of integrated units, which is different from other...
This paper presents an experimental comparison between a Direct Matrix Converter and an Indirect Matrix Converter in terms of semiconductor devices thermal cycling. Both converters have been designed and built using SiC MOSFETs; the Indirect Matrix Converter has also been tested using a hybrid solution with Silicon IGBT on the input stage and SiC MOSFETs on the output stage.
This paper proposes a Pulse Density Modulation (PDM) method with improved transient for high frequency converters such as Class E DC/DC or quasi-resonant boost converters. In contrast to frequency or duty cycle control, the conventional PDM control method provides high efficiency at any load when modulation frequency is low. However, efficiency drops significantly for higher modulation frequencies...
A mixed switched-capacitor cell is proposed by integrating a voltage divider with a voltage multiplier. It is inserted in a boost stage for achieving a converter with high conversion ratio, low voltage stress on switches, non-pulsating input current as required as front-end to electrical grids supplied by renewable energy sources. The generalization of the proposed cell allows to achieve an ultra-high...
A maximum-power-point tracking (MPPT) algorithm is essential in all controllers of solar power electronic converters due to the nonlinear current-voltage characteristics of a photovoltaic generator. One of the most widely utilized algorithms are perturbative MPPT techniques such as perturb and observe and incremental conductance methods due to their simple implementation with relatively good tracking...
Ripple free DC or AC current source can be implemented by operating a switching converter in current mode control and setting the switching frequency much higher than the operating frequency. However, due to presence of the output filter across the load, it exhibits deviation from the ideal output impedance characteristics of an ideal current source. In this paper, a DC and an AC current source are...
This paper presents a new PWM switching technique for controlling a bidirectional isolated DC-AC-AC inverter along with its soft-switching technique. The proposed PWM technique has the ability to control the input DC current and to inject a sinusoidal three-phase current to the grid at unity power factor. In the first stage, an H-bridge converter is used to convert the DC voltage to a high-frequency...
The stringent requirements on both the control bandwidth and the supply standby current make it tough to design the IC controllers for the v-core converters in future computer applications. The effects of the non-ideal characteristics of the finite gain-bandwidth product and non-zero output impedance of an operational amplifier (OP) are investigated for such a purpose. The results show surprising...
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