Resonant Power Converters [Hardcover]

This book is devoted to resonant energy conversion in power electronics. It is a practical, systematic guide to the analysis and design of various dc-dc resonant inverters, high-frequency rectifiers, and dc-dc resonant converters that are building blocks of many of today's high-frequency energy processors. Designed to function as both a superior senior-to-graduate level textbook for electrical engineering courses and a valuable professional reference for practicing engineers, it provides students and engineers with a solid grasp of existing high-frequency technology, while acquainting them with a number of easy-to-use tools for the analysis and design of resonant power circuits. Resonant power conversion technology is now a very hot area and in the center of the renewable energy and energy harvesting technologies. 

PREFACE xxi

ABOUT THE AUTHORS xxv

LIST OF SYMBOLS xxvii

I Introduction 1

1.1 References 5

PART I RECTIFIERS 7

2 Class D Current-Driven Rectifiers 9

2.1 Introduction 9

2.2 Assumptions 10

2.3 Class D Half-Wave Rectifier 10

2.4 Class D Transformer Center-Tapped Rectifier 20

2.5 Class D Bridge Rectifier 28

2.6 Effects of Equivalent Series Resistance and Equivalent Series Inductance 34

2.7 Synchronous Rectifiers 38

3 Class D Voltage-Driven Rectifiers 47

3.1 Introduction 47

3.2 Assumptions 47

3.3 Class D Half-Wave Rectifier 48

3.4 Class D Transformer Center-Tapped Rectifier 56

3.5 Class D Bridge Rectifier 62

3.6 Synchronous Rectifiers 66

4 Class E Low dv/dt