Title
Lossless Snubber Circuits For Current Doubler Rectifiers To Reduce Reverse-Recovery Losses
Keywords
Body diodes; Converter; Current doubler rectification; DC-DC; Half bridge; Lossless snubber; Reverse recovery; Synchronous rectifier; Voltage clamp
Abstract
Current doubler rectifier (CDR) is one of the best candidates for high output current DC-DC converters. In this paper, several conventional CDR snubber circuits are evaluated, and two passive lossless snubber circuits for the CDR are proposed to reduce the reverse-recovery-related losses and clamp the voltage spikes across the rectifiers. The snubber circuits are tested and verified experimentally, and higher efficiency is achieved when compared to the conventional resistive snubbers.
Publication Date
12-1-2003
Publication Title
IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)
Volume
3
Number of Pages
2639-2644
Document Type
Article; Proceedings Paper
Personal Identifier
scopus
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
1442333600 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/1442333600
STARS Citation
Mao, Hong; Abu-Qahouq, Jaber A.; and Qiu, Weihong, "Lossless Snubber Circuits For Current Doubler Rectifiers To Reduce Reverse-Recovery Losses" (2003). Scopus Export 2000s. 1457.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2000/1457