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Design and evaluation of GaN-based dual-phase interleaved MHz critical mode PFC converter

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In this paper, a gallium nitride (GaN) high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) based dual-phase interleaved MHz critical conduction mode (CRM) power factor correction (PFC) converter is presented.
Abstract
This paper presents the design consideration and performance evaluation of gallium nitride (GaN) high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) based dual-phase interleaved MHz critical conduction mode (CRM) power factor correction (PFC) converter. A 1.2kW 1-3MHz interleaved boost PFC converter prototype is built with 97.9% peak efficiency and 120W/in3 power density. The significant impact of MHz frequency is demonstrated as dramatically size reduction of boost inductor and electro-magnetic interference (EMI) filter. Several inductor designs are discussed. The corner frequency of EMI filter is pushed to several hundreds of kHz. Finally, the limitation of conventional boost PFC converter is discussed as high conduction loss on diode rectifier bridge and high switching loss caused by valley switching, which is negligible in other low frequency PFC converter but significant in MHz PFC converter. The totem-pole bridgeless PFC converter is introduced to further improve the efficiency with no rectifier bridge and zero-voltage switching (ZVS) extension strategy.

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Design of GaN-Based MHz Totem-Pole PFC Rectifier

TL;DR: In this paper, a dual-phase interleaved GaN-based MHz totem-pole PFC rectifier is demonstrated with 99% peak efficiency and 220 W/in $^{\mathrm {{3}}}$ power density.
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High-Efficiency High-Density Critical Mode Rectifier/Inverter for WBG-Device-Based On-Board Charger

TL;DR: Design considerations of the ac/dc stage are presented, including: the evaluation of 1.2-kV SiC MOSFETs; the ZVS extension techniques to realize ZVS under all input/output variations; and a novel universal control strategy for both the rectifier mode and the inverter mode.
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Design and Optimization of a 380–12 V High-Frequency, High-Current LLC Converter With GaN Devices and Planar Matrix Transformers

TL;DR: In this paper, a 1-MHz 1-kW LLC resonant converter using GaN devices and planar matrix transformers is proposed for data center data center applications, which achieves high-current, high-efficiency, and low-cost power solutions.
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A High-Efficiency High-Density Wide-Bandgap Device-Based Bidirectional On-Board Charger

TL;DR: In this article, a two-stage topology for a 6.6-kW on-board charger is proposed, which employs an interleaved bridgeless totem-pole ac/dc in critical conduction mode to realize zero-voltage switching, and a bidirectional CLLC resonant converter operating at 500 kHz is chosen for the second stage.
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High-Frequency High-Efficiency GaN-Based Interleaved CRM Bidirectional Buck/Boost Converter with Inverse Coupled Inductor

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented a high-frequency high-efficiency GaN device-based interleaved critical current mode (CRM) bidirectional buck/boost converter with an inverse coupled inductor.
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TL;DR: The merits and limitations of several PFC techniques used in today's network-server and telecom power supplies to maximize their conversion efficiencies are discussed, and the effect of recent advancements in semiconductor technology on the performance and design considerations of PFC converters is discussed.
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Computationally efficient winding loss calculation with multiple windings, arbitrary waveforms, and two-dimensional or three-dimensional field geometry

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