A new energy transfer principle to achieve a minimum phase & continuous current boost converter

The conventional boost converter is widely used for many different applications in spite of its limitations regarding dynamic performance, due to its right-half-plane zeros, and discontinuous output current. An alternative boost converter based on a capacitive energy transfer has been proposed in the past to overcome the above mentioned drawbacks, being the need of a floating driver its major disadvantage. This paper introduces a new energy transfer principle allowing both to have continuous current and to eliminate the RHP zero without the need of a floating driver. It also compares the new converter with the capacitive energy transfer counter-part and presents B/B stability test results.