A Single-Switched High-Switching-Frequency Quasi-Resonant Flyback Converter

Abstract

The demand of miniaturization of power systems has accelerated the research on high-switching-frequency power converters. A single-switched quasi-resonant flyback converter that features low switching loss and low switching noise at high switching frequency is investigated in this paper. In order to realize near fully soft switching, a resonant inductor of primary side and a resonant capacitor of secondary side are utilized to recycle the transformer leakage energy and realize zero-current switching (ZCS) at turn off and valley switching (VS) at turn on of the primary switch, and ZCS at turn off of diode. The VS is utilized based on the resonance between the resonant inductor and the equivalent switch drain capacitor. In the closed-loop control, a pulse frequency modulation mode with time fluctuation of switching period is implemented to realize VS at turn on of switch and an on – off control mode is utilized to improve the overall efficiency. Low cost, low losses, and low switching noise are all realized in the proposed prototype. The proposed concept has been validated on a 1 MHz 12 V/3 A prototype with 80 V dc input. The peak efficiency is 90.3% in the on – off mode by using GaN device without synchronous rectification.