Interleaved buck converter having low switching losses and improved step-down conversion ratio

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This paper proposes a new interleaved buck converter (IBC) having low switching losses and improved step-down conversion ratio, which is suitable for the applications where the input voltage is high and the operating duty is below 50. It is similar to the conventional IBC, but two active switches are connected in series and a coupling capacitor is employed in the power path, such as Ck, Sepic, and Zeta converters. The proposed IBC shows that since the voltage stress across all the active switches is half of the input voltage before turn-on or after turn-off when the operating duty is below 50, the capacitive discharging and switching losses can be reduced considerably. This allows the proposed IBC to have higher efficiency and operate with higher switching frequency. In addition, the proposed IBC has a higher step-down conversion ratio and a smaller output current ripple compared with a conventional IBC. The features, operation principles, and relevant analysis results of the proposed IBC are presented in this paper. The validity of this study is confirmed by the experimental results of prototype converters with 150-200V input, 24V/10A output. © 2012 IEEE.

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Lee, I. O., Cho, S. Y., & Moon, G. W. (2012). Interleaved buck converter having low switching losses and improved step-down conversion ratio. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 27(8), 3664–3675. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEL.2012.2185515

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