Research on the Self Turn-On of Synchronous Rectifiers

Masahito JINNO  Po-Yuan CHEN  Ming-Shih LIN  Katsuaki MURATA  Koosuke HARADA 

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications  Vol.E95-B  No.7  pp.2286-2295
Publication Date: 2012/07/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Energy in Electronics Communications
Keyword: 
synchronous rectification,  self turn-on, 

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Summary: 
In DC/DC converters with low output voltage and high output current, the technique of synchronous rectification is widely used for improving the output efficiency. However, SR buck converters can experience the abnormal phenomenon called “self turn-on” which will occur in the low-side switch under some circuit conditions. “Self turn-on” is a malfunction of the low-side switch, basically caused by the resonance of the parasitic inductance and the parasitic capacitance. It results in noticeable power dissipation. In this paper, the phenomenon will be clearly described and investigated. With the theoretical analysis and the experimental verification, strategies that can suppress this phenomenon are proposed.