Open AccessAnalysis, design and performance of a soft‐switching single‐phase inverter
Author(s) -
Wang ChienMing,
Lin ChangHua,
Lin HsinYi,
Hsu ShihYung
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
iet power electronics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.637
H-Index - 77
eISSN - 1755-4543
pISSN - 1755-4535
DOI - 10.1049/iet-pel.2013.0514
Subject(s) - inverter , pulse width modulation , voltage , clamper , power (physics) , computer science , electronic engineering , electrical engineering , control theory (sociology) , engineering , physics , control (management) , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence
A soft‐switching pulse‐width modulation (PWM) single‐phase inverter using a voltage clamp soft‐switching step‐up/down dc link is proposed in this study. The proposed voltage clamp soft‐switching step‐up/down DC link not only provides the switches in the section of conventional PWM buck inverter operate at zero‐voltage‐switching (ZVS), but it has a step‐up/down input voltage function and the switches in itself also operate at ZVS. Thus, except for the switch in the section of ZVS‐PWM auxiliary circuit, all power semiconductor devices in proposed inverter operate at ZVS turn‐on and turn‐off. The switch in the section of ZVS‐PWM auxiliary circuit operates at zero‐current‐switching (ZCS) turn‐on and turn‐off. Besides operating at constant frequency, the proposed inverter has no voltage stress and current stress on the main switch compared to the hard switching inverter counterpart. Auxiliary components rated at very small current are used. The principle of operation, theoretical analysis and experimental results of the proposed soft‐switching inverter, rated 1 kW and operated at 40 kHz, are provided in this study to verify the performance.