Authors:Hui Chen;Xinke Wu;Shuai Shao (Zhejiang University) Abstact: In this paper, a current-sharing method for an interleaved high-frequency LLC converter with partial energy processing is presented. A small transformer and an auxiliary low-power dc-dc converter are added in each phase, and the current sharing between phases is achieved by controlling the duty cycle of the auxiliary converter. Only partial energy is processed by the auxiliary converter; hence, the power losses of the added auxiliary converters are minimized, and the overall high efficiency is maintained. By transforming the current sharing of the resonant converter into pulse width modulation control of a dc-dc converter, the proposed method is simple to implement and easy to extend to multiple phases. The frequency of the auxiliary converter is independent of the main LLC, so the LLC can operate at a fixed switching frequency and duty cycle, and it is suitable for high-frequency applications. The operating principle, […]
For applications such as tethered drones that require a wide voltage range and high-efficiency, high-density converters, the ZJU-PMIC team previously proposed an input-series output-parallel (ISOP)cellular DCX scheme, as shown in Figure 1. It reduces device losses caused by high electrical stress and adopts a half-bridge topology with X7R surface-mount capacitors as resonant capacitors to improve power density. Fig.1 Cellular DCX topology As the output voltage decreases, due to the nonlinearity of the output junction capacitance of the switches, the charge required to achieve ZVS does not decrease significantly, while the magnetizing current decreases linearly, causing the switches to fail to achieve ZVS and increasing switching losses. For the half-bridge X7R resonant capacitor, its capacitance is also nonlinear and increases as the output voltage decreases, causing the resonant period to mismatch the switching period, which increases the RMS resonant current and increases conduction losses. In short, when the output voltage is […]