The DC-DC converter topologies have received increasing attention in recent years for high power and high performance applications. The advantages of DC-DC boost converters include increased efficiency, reduced size, reduced electromagnetic emission, faster transient response, and improved reliability. The front end inductors in a boost converter are magnetically coupled to improve electrical p...

This paper describes the modeling and control of a three-phase grid-connected converter fed by a photovoltaic array. The converter is composed of an isolated DC-DC converter and a three-phase DC-AC voltage source inverter The converters are modeled in order to obtain small-signal transfer functions that are used in the design of three closed-loop controllers: for the output voltage of the PV ar...

Power efficiency is critical for electrical stimulators. Battery life of wearable stimulators and wireless power transmission in implanted systems are common limiting factors. Boost DC/DC converters are typically needed to increase the supply voltage of the output stage. Traditionally, boost DC/DC converters are used with fast control to regulate the supply voltage of the output. However, since...

In this chapter, power losses and mass of optimally designed Sivs. SiC-based isolated DC-DC converters are compared in quantitative terms. To that end, an adapted version of a computer-aided design tool, previously published by the authors, is used. The database of the existing tool was completed with new wide band gap semicon‐ ductor devices currently available from manufacturers. The results ...

This paper presents a novel output voltage regulator in the cascade structure under consideration of both parameter and load uncertainties. It leads to first-order closed-loop inner outer loop dynamics low-pass filter form by pole-zero cancellation through active damping injection, which is main contribution this study. Moreover, it proved that injection level determines disturbance rejection c...

A new bidirectional isolated Zero-VoltageSwitching (ZVS) DC-DC converter with nonpulsating input and output current is proposed. This converter is ideally suited for battery charging application and is applied as a submodule in a battery storage system based on a modular multilevel converter (MC). The current output of the proposed DC-DC converter enables small current ripple for directly inter...

BACKGROUND Directing cell behaviour using controllable, on-demand non-biochemical methods, such as electrical stimulation is an attractive area of research. While there exists much potential in exploring different modes of electrical stimulation and investigating a wider range of cellular phenomena that can arise from electrical stimulation, progress in this field has been slow. The reasons for...

A study on the properties and control of a promising circuit topology for a DC-DC buckboost power converter is presented. The circuit contains four transistors operated synchronously in couples. We propose a set of mathematical models to describe this circuit, and an approach to determine the behavior of the losses occurring inside of it. These are then combined in order to achieve a control sc...