Resonant Converters

Switch mode Inductive current switching

Hard Switching Waveforms One Inverter Leg

 Higher losses
 Device stress
 Thermal management
 EMI due to high dv/dt and di/dt
 Turn-on and Turn-off Snubbers

 Reduces switch stress

 Shifts the power loss from switch to snubber

Switching Trajectories
Undamped Series-Resonant Circuit
 Series-Resonant Circuit with Capacitor-Parallel Load

 Load Resonant converter

 Resonant DC link Inverter
 Resonant switch converter
Transformer is ignored in the equivalent circuit
Transformer is ignored in the equivalent circuit
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DCM: current source

SLR Converter Control
 Parallel loaded Resonant Converter

 PLR converter acts as a voltage source

 Do not have inherent short-circuit protection
capability
 PLR converter can act as step up as well as step down
transformer
Class E Converters
Class E Converters
 Class E Converters

 Switching device and LC elements have to

withstand high voltage and current
 Only one switch Efficiency > 95%
 Low power applications < 100 W
 Used for fixed output voltage
 High frequency electronic lamp ballast
 Resonant-switch Converters

 Shaping the switch voltage and current for ZCS or ZVS

 ZCS: Switch turn-on/turn-off at zero current, peak current flows through switch
but switch voltage remains same as switch mode counterpart
 ZVS: Switch turn-on/turn-off at zero voltage. Peak resonant voltage appears across
the switch but the peak current remains same as switch mode counterpart
Resonant-switch ZCS Converters
Resonant-switch ZCS Converters
Resonant-switch ZCS Converters
Resonant-switch ZCS Converters
Resonant-switch ZCS Converters
Resonant-switch ZCS Converters
 Resonant-switch ZCS Converters

Relation between Io and Vd/Zo

Resonant-switch ZVS Converters

Practice yourself
 Resonant-switch ZVS Converters

Practice yourself

ZVS is preferred over ZCS at high switching frequencies why?