Analysis and Design of a Novel Active Soft Switched Phase-Shifted Full Bridge Converter

This paper proposes an active soft-switching circuit for bridge converters aiming to improve the power conversion efficiency. The proposed circuit achieves loss-less switching for both main and auxiliary switches without increasing the main switch current/voltage rating. A winding coupled to the primary of power transformer ensures ZCS for the auxiliary switches during their turn-off. A 350 W, 100 kHz phase shifted full bridge (PSFB) converter is built to validate the analysis and design. Theoretical loss calculations for proposed circuit is presented. The proposed circuit is compared with passive soft switched PSFB in terms of efficiency and loss in duty cycle.

Authors:

• Naga Brahmendra Yadav Gorla
• Dr. Lakshmi Narasamma N

Keywords:

• soft switching
• passive soft switching
• ZVS
• ZCS
• PSFB.

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