A Merged two-stage power conversion architecture with switched capacitor circuit for an LED driver module

• Main Author: Lim, Seungbum
• Other Authors: David J. Perreault.
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2012
• Subjects: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/75662

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2012. === Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. === Includes bibliographical references (p. 71). === In a power converter specified to convert from wide-range and high-level DC voltage or AC line voltage to low-level DC voltage, satisfying high efficiency, high power density, and high power factor is challenging because of the higher device stress and difficulty of maintaining ZVS/ZCS conditions. Our purpose of the proposed two-stage power conversion architecture is to manage this high peak voltage stress and widely-varying operating conditions and to reduce dissipation by placing a switched capacitor pre-regulator stage in front of a very high frequency DC-DC converter stage. Our proposed two-stage architecture has been designed, built, and tested. === by Seungbum Lim. === S.M.