Advanced Switching Power Supplies

3 credits

Fundamentals of power MOSFET gate drive. Fundamentals of loss-less switching techniques: zero-voltage switching, zero-current switching. Variable frequency resonant converters. Constant frequency resonant converters. Soft-switching converters: natural and auxiliary commutation converter topologies. Control techniques: voltage and current mode control methods. Power factor correction techniques in rectification applications. Special emphasis will be on design techniques using practical examples.