An overview of the AC-DC and DC-DC converters for LED lighting applications

M Arias, A Vázquez, J Sebastián - automatika, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
High-Brightness Light Emitting Diodes (HB-LEDs) are considered the future trend in lighting
not only due to their high efficiency and high reliability, but also due to their other …

Design of a soft-switching asymmetrical half-bridge converter as second stage of an LED driver for street lighting application

M Arias, DG Lamar, FF Linera… - … on Power Electronics, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High-brightness LEDs are considered remarkable lighting devices due to their high
reliability, chromatic variety, and increasing efficiency. As a result, a high number of …

High-efficiency asymmetrical half-bridge converter without electrolytic capacitor for low-output-voltage AC–DC LED drivers

M Arias, MF Diaz, DG Lamar, D Balocco… - IEEE transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to their high reliability and luminous efficacy, high-brightness light-emitting diodes are
being widely used in lighting applications, and therefore, their power supplies are required …

Zero-voltage-switching half-bridge DC-DC converter with modified PWM control method

H Mao, J Abu-Qahouq, S Luo… - IEEE transactions on …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Asymmetric control scheme is an approach to achieve zero-voltage switching (ZVS) for half-
bridge isolated dc-dc converters. However, it is not suited for wide range of input voltage due …

High efficiency power converter

MF Schlecht - US Patent 5,999,417, 1999 - Google Patents
Mohandes, Bijan, MOSFET Synchronous Rectifiers Achieve 90% Efficiency-Part I and Part II,
PCIM, Jun. 1991, pp. 10–13 & 55–61. rectifiers in a Secondary winding circuit, each …

A 1-MHz zero-voltage-switching asymmetrical half-bridge DC/DC converter: Analysis and design

X Xu, AM Khambadkone, TM Leong… - IEEE transactions on …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The asymmetrical half-bridge (AHB) topology discussed in this paper is one of the
complementary driven pulse-width modulated converter topologies, which presents an …

Digital control for an arc welding machine based on resonant converters and synchronous rectification

A Navarro-Crespin, VM Lopez… - IEEE Transactions …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-based generation of optimized
drive signals for resonant converters using synchronous rectification (SR) applied to an arc …

High efficiency power converter

MF Schlecht - US Patent 7,269,034, 2007 - Google Patents
Mar. 27, 2006, which is a continuation of application(Continued) No. 10/812,314, filed on
Mar. 29, 2004, now Pat. No. 7,072,190, which is a continuation of application No. Primary …

Optimized design of a high input-voltage-ripple-rejection converter for LED lighting

M Arias, I Castro, DG Lamar, A Vázquez… - … on Power Electronics, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The asymmetrical half-bridge (AHB) converter has been deeply analyzed as second stage in
ac-dc light emitting diode (LED) drivers. Galvanic isolation, high reliability and high …

A converter combination scheme for efficiency improvement of PV systems

T Qian - IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This brief proposes a new topology combination scheme to improve the power efficiency of a
standalone photovoltaic system as well as achieving the benefit of cost reduction. Instead of …