A soft switched forward converter without current and voltage stress

This paper presents a steady-state analysis with a description of a two transistor forward converter operating in soft switching mode without voltage and current stresses. The use of a soft commutation cell allows the auxiliary switch to operate in ZCS mode at turning on and ZVS mode at turning off. The main switch S/sub 1/ operates in ZVS-ZCS at turning on and ZVS at turning off and the main switch S/sub 2/ operates in ZCS at turning on and hard switching at turning off. The output voltage is controlled using the PWM technique. Operating principles, simulation and experimental results are presented.