Inductor Case Study

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large conduction losses. A resonant inductor is placed in the switched capacitor circuits to limit the peak current and avoid the diode reverse-recovery problem [11, 12]. The small inductor makes the active switch turn on with zero-current switching (ZCS) condition in [11]. When the conversion ratio is large, many switched capacitor stages are required to achieve high voltage gain, which makes the circuit complex and increases the cost. Additional inductors and diodes are placed to extend the voltage gain of the converters, where the inductors are connected in parallel to the charging path and then connected in series to the discharging path [13, 14]. Thus, high duty-cycles are avoided. Also, the switched capacitor technology is used in …show more content…

Even though more than one power processing stage exists, the operation in continuous conduction mode (CCM) may still lead to high efficiency [9]. The main drawbacks in this case are increased complexity due to two sets of active switches, magnetics, and controllers. The controllers must be synchronized and stability is of great concern [10]. Due to high power levels and high output voltage, the latter cascaded boost stage has severe reverse losses, with low efficiency and high electromagnetic interference (EMI) levels. Examples of such converters are the single-switch quadratic boost converter and the two-switch three-level boost converter [11] (19)The basic structure to obtain high boost rate is a cascade converter, which has low efficiency and complexity. Use of cascade of converters for getting the desired voltage ratio is a no-solution in the today’s world, as this procedure implies an overall efficiency equal to the product of the efficiencies of each circuit. To simplify the cascade circuit, the modified converter using one switch has been developed.[2,3] However, it still has the problem in efficiency and cost compared to the cascade

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