POWER ELECTRONICS

(ELE 3201)
Soft Switching
(L40 – L41)

Vineeth Patil
Assistant Professor – Senior Scale
MIT, Manipal
Introduction
• Switched-mode converters
• Switches are required to turn on and turn off load current during each switching.
• High switching stress and high switching power loss
• Increases linearly with switching frequency.
• EMI issues due to large di/dt and dv/dt during switch-mode operation.

Fig.1 Voltage and Current waveform during switching

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Soft-Switching
• Switching at zero current or zero voltage or both.
• Resonant Converters

• Classification of Resonant Converters

• Load-resonant converters
• Resonant-switch converters
• Resonant-dc-link converters
• High-frequency-dc-link integral-half-cycle converters.

Fig.2 Zero-voltage/zero-current switching loci

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Resonant-switch Converters
• LC resonance is used to shape the switch voltage and current to provide zero-
voltage or zero-current switching.

• Also known as quasi-resonant converters.

• Sub-classification
• Resonant-switch dc-dc converters
• Zero-current switching (ZCS) converters
• Zero-voltage switching (ZVS) converters
• Zero-voltage switching, clamped-voltage converters

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Resonant-switch Converters - ZCS

Fig.3(A) ZCS resonant switch buck converter Fig.3(B) Resonant inductor current and capacitor voltage waveforms

Fig.3(C) Equivalent circuits during (a) to—t1 (b) t1—t2 (c) t2—t3 (d) t3—t4

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Resonant-switch Converters - ZVS

Fig.4(A) ZVS resonant switch buck converter Fig.4(B) Resonant inductor current and capacitor voltage waveforms

Fig.3(C) Equivalent circuits during (a) to—t1 (b) t1—t2 (c) t2—t3 (d) t3—t4
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References
• Ned Mohan et.al., “Power Electronics- Converters, Applications and Design”, (2e),
Wiley,2010

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