High-Frequency PCB Winding Transformer With Integrated Inductors for a Bi-Directional Resonant Converter

By Bin Li, Qiang Li, Fred C. Lee. IEEE transactions on power electronics, 2019

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The momentum toward high power density high-efficiency power converters continues unabated. The key to reducing the size of power converters is high-frequency operation and the bottleneck is the magnetic components. With the emerging widebandgap devices, the switching frequency of power converters increases significantly, to hundreds of kilohertz, which provides us the opportunity to adopt printed circuit board (PCB) winding planar magnetics. Compared with the conventional litz-wire-based magnetics, planar magnetics can not only effectively reduce the converter size, but also offer improved reliability through automated manufacturing process with repeatable parasitics. Another way to reduce the number of magnetic components and shrink the size of power converters is through the magnetic integration. In this paper, a novel PCB winding based magnetic structure is proposed to integrate both inductor and transformer into one component. In this structure, the inductor value can be easily controlled by changing the cross-sectional area of the core or the length of the air gap. A 6.6-kW 500-kHz CLLC resonant converter prototype with 98% efficiency and 130-W/in3 (8 kW/L) power density is built to verify the feasibility of the proposed PCB winding based magnetic structure.

Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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