Optimal Design of MHz LLC Converter for 48V Bus Converter Application

dc.contributor.authorCai, Yinsongen
dc.contributor.committeechairLi, Qiangen
dc.contributor.committeememberLee, Fred C.en
dc.contributor.committeememberZhang, Yuhaoen
dc.contributor.departmentElectrical Engineeringen
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-13T08:00:27Zen
dc.date.available2019-09-13T08:00:27Zen
dc.date.issued2019-09-12en
dc.description.abstractThe intermediate bus architecture employing the 48V bus converter is one of the most popular power architecture. 48V to 12V bus converter has wide applications in telecommunications, networks, aerospace, and military, etc. However, today's state of the art products has low power rating or power density and becomes difficult to satisfy the demand of increasing power of the loads. To improve the current design, a GaN (Gallium Nitride) based two-stage solution is proposed for the bus converter. The first stage Buck converter regulates the 40V to 60V variable input to a fixed 36V bus voltage. The second stage LLC converter convert the 36V to 12V by a 3:1 transformer. The whole solution achieves the fixed frequency control. The thesis focus on the detail design and optimization of LLC converter, especially its transformer. To have high density and high efficiency, the transformer design becomes critical at MHz frequency. The matrix transformer concept is applied and a merged winding structure is used for flux cancellation, which effectively reduces the AC winding losses. A new fully interleaved termination and via design is proposed. It achieves significant reduction in loss and leakage flux. In addition, to study the current sharing of parallel winding layers, a 1-D analytic model is proposed and a symmetrical winding layer scheme is used to balance the current distribution. The hardware is built and tested. The proposed two-stage converter achieves the best performance compared to the current market.en
dc.description.abstractgeneralIntermediate bus architecture (IBA) has wide applications in telecommunication, server and computing, and military power supplies. The intermediate bus converter (IBC) is the key stage in the IBA, where the DC bus voltage from the front-end power supply is converted to a lower intermediate bus voltage. Traditional IBC suffers from bulky magnetic components including inductors and transformers. This work illustrates the design and implementation of a two-stage IBC, where the first-stage Buck converter will provide regulation and the second stage LLC converter will provide isolation. Thanks to the soft-switching capability of LLC, the magnetic volume can be significantly reduced by raising the switching frequency of the converter. Therefore, planar magnetics can be used and placed directly inside of the printing circuit board (PCB), which allows for higher power densities and easy manufacturing of the magnetics and overall converter. However, as the frequency goes higher, the AC losses of the transformer caused by the eddy current, skin effect, and proximity effect become dominant. As a result, high-frequency transformer design becomes the key for the converter design. First, matrix transformer concept is applied to distribute the high current and reduce the conduction loss. Second, a novel merged winding structure is proposed for better transformer winding interleaving. Third, a new terminal structure of the transformer is proposed. Finally, the current sharing between parallel windings are modeled and studied. All the efforts result in great loss reduction. The prototype were verified and compared to the current converters that are on the market in the 48V – 12V area of IBCs.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Scienceen
dc.format.mediumETDen
dc.identifier.othervt_gsexam:22127en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/93582en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectLLC Converteren
dc.subjectIntegrated Magneticsen
dc.subjectTransformer Optimizationen
dc.subjectIntermediate Bus Converteren
dc.titleOptimal Design of MHz LLC Converter for 48V Bus Converter Applicationen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineElectrical Engineeringen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen

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