Two methods to drive synchronous rectifiers during dead time in forward topologies

Author

Xuefei, Xie ; Liu, Joe C P ; Poon, Franki N K ; Pong, Bryan M H

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Hong Kong Univ., Hong Kong

Volume

2

fYear

2000

fDate

6/22/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

993

Abstract

Conventional self-driven synchronous rectification forward topology cannot provide drive voltage for freewheeling synchronous rectifier (SR) when transformer magnetic reset process is over and zero voltage appears across the transformer windings. This causes SR body diode turn on and deteriorates the performance of synchronous rectification. In this paper, two SR drive mechanisms, gate charge retention drive and energy recovery current drive are presented. Both mechanisms can solve this body diode turn on problem. The current driven method also provides constant drive voltage and allows parallel operation. Two 250 kHz, 48 V input 5 V/10 A output DC-DC modules are designed using these two methods. 92% efficiency is achieved at full load for both modules

Keywords

DC-DC power convertors; driver circuits; rectifying circuits; transformer windings; 10 A; 250 kHz; 48 V; 5 V; 92 percent; DC-DC converter; body diode turn on problem; dead time; drive mechanisms; energy recovery current drive; forward topologies; freewheeling synchronous rectifier; gate charge retention drive; parallel operation; synchronous rectifiers driving; transformer magnetic reset process; transformer windings; zero voltage; Circuit topology; Current transformers; Low voltage; MOSFET circuits; Magnetic resonance; Network topology; Rectifiers; Schottky diodes; Strontium; Windings;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, 2000. APEC 2000. Fifteenth Annual IEEE

Conference_Location

New Orleans, LA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5864-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APEC.2000.822810

Filename

822810