Soft switching for half bridge current doubler for high voltage point of load converter in data center power supplies

In this paper, a single stage system which converts 400 V to 1 V within one stage and performs as the high voltage point of load (HV POL) converter for data centers is proposed. A load dependent soft switching method has been proposed for half bridge current doubler with simple auxiliary circuit. The operation principles of the soft switching converter have been analyzed in detail. A lossless RCD current sensing method is used to sense the output current value to reduce the auxiliary circuit loss and turn off loss of secondary side devices as load reduces to achieve higher efficiency. Experimental efficiency has been tested to prove the proposed method can increase the converter's efficiency in both heavy and light load condition. A prototype of the half bridge current doubler circuit has been built to verify the theory.

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