Energy harvesting is an emerging technology with applications to handheld, portable and implantable electronics. Harvesting ambient vibration energy through piezoelectric (PE) means is a popular energy harvesting technique that can potentially supply 10 to 100’s of μW of available power [1]. One of the limitations of existing PE harvesters is in their interface circuitry. Commonly used full-bri...

Randomized Pulse Width Modulation (RPWM) deals better than Deterministic PWM (DPWM) with Electro-Magnetic Compatibility (EMC) standards for conducted Electro-Magnetic Interferences (EMI). In this paper, we propose a dual RPWM scheme for DC-DC voltage converters: the buck converter and the full bridge converter. This scheme is based on the comparison of deterministic reference signals (one signa...

DC-BUS based power distribution systems with battery backup have been widely used in aerospace and telecommunication applications, where the bus voltage is usually determined by the battery. In these systems, there are many loads that need different and low operating voltages. Since the bus voltage is usually much higher than the load voltage and varies in a wide range with the stage of charge ...

In Electrical power systems in future uninterruptible power supplies or electrical vehicles may employ hybrid energy sources, such as fuel cells and super capacitors. It will be necessary to efficiently draw the energy from these two sources as well as recharge the energy storage elements by the dc bus. In this paper, a bidirectional isolated dc–dc converter controlled by phase-shift angle and ...

The paper presents soft switching PWM DC-DC converters using power MOSFETs and IGBTs. The attention is focused mainly on the full-bridge converters suitable for high power applications. The properties of the PWM converters are described in comparison to other categories of soft switching converters. An overview of the switching techniques using in the DC-DC converters is included. Consideration...

This paper analyses and compares PWM control strategy of control and buffer type soft switching half bridge DC/DC converter. Finally, the soft switching condition are analyzed, and this article gets the realization of soft switching conditions of the three half bridge DC/DC converter and the influence factors of soft switching conditions of the three half bridge DC/DC converter. Characteristics...

Inductor Inductor Capacitor (LLC) resonant converter has gained attention of researchers and engineers these days High efficiency, power density and Reliability. LLC resonant converter is most suitable resonant converter for front end DC-DC applications. Integrated magnetic, ZVS and high frequency operation, make the converter more compact and efficient. In this paper brief analysis of the LLC ...