This dissertation proposes an analysis and design of high-frequency single-ended resonant DC-DC converters with small inductance. The single-ended converters with a single ground-referenced switch feature simpler gate driving circuitry compared to bri...
This dissertation proposes an analysis and design of high-frequency single-ended resonant DC-DC converters with small inductance. The single-ended converters with a single ground-referenced switch feature simpler gate driving circuitry compared to bridge-type converters. The Class E converter, one of the single-ended resonant converters, is commonly used in several tens-MHz applications. It is because it exhibits not only low turn-on switching loss and noise due to zero voltage switching (ZVS) at turn-on but also low turn-off switching loss. However, the large input filter inductance of the classical Class E converter hampers achieving higher power density and faster dynamic response.
Therefore, to address the disadvantages of the Class E converter, this dissertation investigates the single-ended resonant converter with small input inductance. The main contribution of this work is to propose a single-ended resonant switching cell as an analytic model and analyze the resonant switching cell without confining the duty ratio of the switch or the resonant frequency of the resonant network to the specific values. By doing so, it is possible to optimize the design of the resonant switching cell based on the analysis. The objective function for design optimization in this work is set to minimize the resonant current magnitude and conduction loss. The conventional Class E converter necessarily requires the large resonant current for ZVS since the input current is DC due to the large input filter inductor. On the other hand, reducing the input inductance can decrease the magnitude of the resonant current if the phase angle of the input current ripple is adjusted suitably. Thus, the design method presented in this dissertation focuses on finding this design condition to minimize the resonant current magnitude and conduction loss.
Besides, the analysis and design of the proposed single-ended resonant switching cell account for both forward and reverse power flows; the resonant inverter and rectifier can be analyzed and designed in the same manner by duality principle. Consequently, the analysis and design of one resonant switching cell can be applied to those of the single-ended resonant DC-DC converter configured by cascading the inverter and the rectifier cells. Furthermore, the analysis and design based on the proposed resonant switching cell allow simple implementation of synchronous rectification (SR) or bidirectional DC-DC converters.
The simulation results and the experiment results from a 10-MHz GaN-based prototype demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed analysis and design for single-ended resonant DC-DC converters.