A new circuit is proposed for a steep step-up of the line voltage. It integrates a switched-capacitor (SC) circuit within a boost converter. An SC circuit can achieve any voltage ratio, allowing for a boost of the input voltage to high values. It is unregulated to allow for a very high efficiency. The boost stage has a regulation purpose. It can operate at a relatively low duty cycle, thus avoi...

A simple dc-dc boost converter are unable to provide high step-up voltage gains due to the effect of power switches, rectifier diodes, and the equivalent series resistance of inductor and capacitors. In this paper proposes new dc-dc converter to achieve high voltage gain without an extremely high duty ratio. In the proposed converters, two inductors with the same level of inductance are charged...

High step-up voltage gain nonisolated DC-DC converter have attracted much attention in photovoltaic, fuel cells and other renewable energy system applications. In this paper, by combining input current ripple-free boost cell with coupled-inductor voltage-doubler cell, an input current ripple-free high voltage gain nonisolated converter is proposed. In addition, passive lossless clamp circuit is...

In this paper, a high-conversion-ratio bidirectional dc–dc converter with coupled inductor is proposed. In the boost mode, two capacitors are parallel charged and series discharged by the coupled inductor. Thus, high step-up voltage gain can be achieved with an appropriate duty ratio. The voltage stress on the main switch is reduced by a passive clamp circuit. Therefore, the low resistance RDS(...

This paper presents the analysin ,design and implementation of a high voltage ratio topology of DC-DC converter. The DC-DC converter has high voltage ratio with reduced input current, output voltage and output current ripple, and also reduces the voltage and current rating of power electronics components and compared with conventional boost converter. The voltage stress on the switches are  red...

This paper presents a low noise CMOS image sensor using column-parallel high-gain signal readout and digital correlated multiple sampling (CMS). The sensor used is a conventional 4T active pixel architecture with a pinned-photodiode as detector. The test sensor has been fabricated in a 0.18μm CMOS image sensor process from TSMC. The random noise from the pixel readout chain is reduced in two st...

A zero voltage switching (ZVS) dc–dc converter with high voltage gain is proposed. It consists of a ZVS boost switch cell converter stage and a ZVS half-bridge converter stage with resonant converter and all these stages are merged into a single stage. The ZVS boost converter stage provides a continuous input current and ZVS operation of the power switches. The ZVS halfbridge converter stage pr...

Some applications such as fuel cells or photovoltaic panels offer low output voltage, and it is essential to boost this voltage before connecting the grid through an inverter. The Z-network converter can be used for DC-DC conversion enhance of renewable energy sources. However, boosting capabilities traditional converters are limited, utilization higher parts count makes bulky expensive. In pap...

In this paper, an integrated three-voltage-booster DC-DC (direct current to direct current) converter is proposed to achieve high voltage gain for renewable-energy generation systems. The proposed converter integrates three voltage-boosters into one power stage, which is composed of an active switch, a coupled-inductor, five diodes, and five capacitors. As compared with conventional high step-u...

The distributed generation (DG) systems based on the renewable energy sources have rapidly developed in recent years. These DG systems are powered by micro sources such as fuel cells, photovoltaic (PV) systems, and batteries. The micro grid concept consists of two stages, in the first stage the low level voltage from the pv cell is converted to high level voltage by using DC-DC converter. In th...