Date of Award
Spring 1994
Document Type
Thesis - Restricted
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Electrical and Computer Engineering
First Advisor
Arkadan, Abdul-Rahman
Second Advisor
Brown, Ronald H.
Third Advisor
Heinen, James A.
Abstract
The motivation for this work result from a need to develop a practical DC-DC converter that operates at the boundary between continuous and discontinuous inductor current. Such a converter is a critical-conduction mode converter. The critical-conduction converter has advantages over fixed-frequency converters that operate strictly in the discontinuous mode in that the peak currents are lower. This advantage motivated the development of a critical-conduction converter. In order to develop the critical-conduction converter, a need for continuous time behavioral models resulted. State Space Averaging is a well known approach to the development of a continuous time behavioral model but has not been previously applied to the critical-conduction converter. Next, the problem of output voltage "run-away" when the load is removed from the output of a critical-conduction converter needed to be addressed. This motivated the development of a new operation mode called bi-directional constant-off-time. In the thesis, the bidirectional constant-off-time converter is introduced. The bi-directional constant-off-time converter operates in a well behaved manner with the load removed. The bi-directional constant-off-time operation is easily combined with the critical-conduction converter to form a dual mode converter. The dual mode operation can then be applied to achieve a practical implementation of a DC-DC converter. This thesis discusses such an implementation.
Recommended Citation
Figie, John R., "Analysis and Application of Critical-Conduction/bi-Directional Constant-Off-Time Converters" (1994). Master's Theses (1922-2009) Access restricted to Marquette Campus. 4560.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/theses/4560