Isolated Zeta-SEPIC bidirectional dc-dc converter with active-clamping
Abstract
This paper proposes an isolated bidirectional dc-dc converter, based on the duality between Zeta and SEPIC converters. Active-clamping is used to recycle the energy trapped in the transformer leakage inductance and to protect the power semiconductors against over-voltages. Theoretical analysis, modulation strategy and experimental results are included in the paper. A laboratory prototype, rated at 1kW, with an input voltage of 100 V, an output voltage of 133 V and 50 kHz of switching frequency validates the predicted theoretical results. The proposed converter is suitable for several practical applications such UPS, electric vehicle, energy storage end smart grids.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Claims the paper makes
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
The coupled inductor design improves the system's power density and dynamic performance.
“Furthermore, the coupled inductor design improves the system's power density and dynamic performance, making the converter even more appealing for applications that demand high reliability and efficiency [79].”
From Bidirectional DC-DC Converter Topologies for Hybrid Energy Storage Systems in Electric Vehicles: A Comprehensive Review (2025) · cites this paper as [79]
Cites
A new ZVS bidirectional DC-DC converter for fuel cell and battery application
Peng, F. Z., Li, H., Su, G.-J., & Lawler, J. S. (2004) · IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics · doi:10.1109/tpel.2003.820550 · Cited by 782 · see citing works
A Bidirectional DC–DC Converter for an Energy Storage System With Galvanic Isolation
Inoue, S., & Akagi, H. (2007) · IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics · doi:10.1109/tpel.2007.909248 · Cited by 780 · see citing works
Energy Management Power Converters in Hybrid Electric and Fuel Cell Vehicles
Lai, J.-S., & Nelson, D. J. (2007) · Proceedings of the IEEE · doi:10.1109/jproc.2006.890122 · Cited by 318 · see citing works
A bidirectional DC-DC converter topology for low power application
Jain, M., Daniele, M., & Jain, P. (2000) · IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics · doi:10.1109/63.849029 · Cited by 256 · see citing works
Krismer, F., Biela, J., & Kolar, J. W. (2005) · IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting (IAS) · doi:10.1109/ias.2005.1518368 · Cited by 253 · see citing works
Bi-directional DC to DC converters for fuel cell systems
Wang, K. G., Lin, C.-H., Zhu, L., Qu, D., Lee, F. C., & Lai, J. (2002) · IEEE Workshop on Power Electronics in Transportation · doi:10.1109/pet.1998.731056 · Cited by 208 · see citing works
A bi-directional DC-DC converter topology for low power application
Jain, M., Jain, P., & Daniele, M. (2002) · PESC record · doi:10.1109/pesc.1997.616811 · Cited by 205 · see citing works
Novel forward–flyback hybrid bidirectional DC–DC converter
Zhang, F., & Yan, Y. (2009) · IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics · doi:10.1109/tie.2008.2009561 · Cited by 184 · see citing works
Actively clamped bidirectional flyback converter
Chen, G., Lee, Y.-S., Hui, S. Y. R., Xu, D., & Wang, Y. (2000) · IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics · doi:10.1109/41.857957 · Cited by 174 · see citing works
DC-DC converters for electric vehicle applications
Bellur, D.-M., & Kazimierczuk, M. K. (2007) · IEEE Electrical Insulation Conference (EIC) · doi:10.1109/eeic.2007.4562633 · Cited by 159 · see citing works
Modeling and Analysis of Coupled Inductors in Power Converters
Zhu, G., McDonald, B. A., & Wang, K. (2010) · IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics · doi:10.1109/tpel.2010.2079953 · Cited by 140 · see citing works
New Bidirectional ZVS PWM Sepic/Zeta DC-DC Converter
Kim, I.-D., Paeng, S.-H., Ahn, J.-W., Nho, E., & Ko, J.-S. (2007) · IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE) · doi:10.1109/isie.2007.4374656 · Cited by 90 · see citing works
Duarte, C. M. C., & Barbi, I. (1997) · IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I Fundamental Theory and Applications · doi:10.1109/81.611265 · Cited by 86 · see citing works
Self-citationIntegrated Full-Bridge-Forward DC–DC Converter for a Residential Microgrid Application
Roggia, L., Schuch, L., Baggio, J. E., et al. (2012) · IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics · doi:10.1109/tpel.2012.2214061 · Cited by 84 · see citing works
Current mode controlled bidirectional flyback converter
Venkatesan, K. (2003) · PESC record · doi:10.1109/pesc.1989.48567 · Cited by 84 · see citing works
Aggeler, D., Biela, J., Inoue, S., et al. (2007) · doi:10.1109/pccon.2007.373015 · Cited by 69 · see citing works
Bi-directional dc-dc converter for fuel cell generation system
Jang, S.-J., Lee, T., Lee, W.-C., & Won, C.-Y. (2004) · IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference (PESC) · doi:10.1109/pesc.2004.1354834 · Cited by 61 · see citing works
Li, H., Liu, D., Peng, F. Z., & Su, G.-J. (2006) · IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference (PESC) · doi:10.1109/pesc.2005.1582026 · Cited by 41 · see citing works
Zhang, Z., Thomsen, O. C., Andersen, M. A. E., et al. (2009) · Conference proceedings/Conference proceedings - IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition · doi:10.1109/apec.2009.4802739 · Cited by 40 · see citing works
An improved soft switching bi-directional PSPWM FB DC/DC converter
Kim, E., Joe, K.-Y., Choi, H.-Y., et al. (2002) · Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society · doi:10.1109/iecon.1998.724185 · Cited by 40 · see citing works
Mehdipour, A., & Farhangi, S. (2011) · International Conference on Electric Power and Energy Conversion Systems · doi:10.1109/epecs.2011.6126822 · Cited by 36 · see citing works
Topologies of bidirectional PWM dc-dc power converters
Kazimierczuk, M. K., Vuong, D. Q., Nguyen, B. T., & Weimer, J. A. (2002) · Proceedings of the IEEE 1993 National Aerospace and Electronics Conference-NAECON 1993 · doi:10.1109/naecon.1993.290953 · Cited by 33 · see citing works
Bidirectional Current-Fed Flyback-Push-Pull DC-DC Converter
de Souza, E. V., & Barbi, I. (2011) · XI Brazilian Power Electronics Conference · doi:10.1109/cobep.2011.6085171 · Cited by 30 · see citing works
Self-citationPerformance evaluation of the isolated bidirectional Cuk converter with integrated magnetics
Aboulnaga, A. A., & Emadi, A. (2004) · 2004 IEEE 35th Annual Power Electronics Specialists Conference (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37551) · doi:10.1109/pesc.2004.1355657 · Cited by 30 · see citing works
Soft Switching Isolated Sepic Converter with the Buck-Boost Type of Active Clamp
Lin, B., & Chen, C. (2007) · IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA) · doi:10.1109/iciea.2007.4318603 · Cited by 20 · see citing works
Analysis and implementation of a bidirectional ZVS dc-dc converter with active clamp
Lin, B.-R., Chen, J.-J., Lee, Y.-E., & Chiang, H.-K. (2008) · 2008 3rd IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications · doi:10.1109/iciea.2008.4582544 · Cited by 19 · see citing works
Analysis of a Soft Switching PWM Active Clamp Cuk Converter
Lin, B., Huang, C.-L., & Chiang, H. (2007) · IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA) · doi:10.1109/iciea.2007.4318823 · Cited by 10 · see citing works
A push-pull converter based bidirectional DC-DC interface for energy storage systems
Hiraki, E., Hirao, K., Tanaka, T. P., et al. (2009) · European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications · Cited by 9 · see citing works
Hirao, K., Okamoto, M., Hiraki, E., et al. (2011) · IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems (PEDS) · doi:10.1109/peds.2011.6147304 · Cited by 6 · see citing works
Analysis and design of an active-clamping ZVS isolated inverse-SEPIC converter
Lin, C.-Y., Lin, J., Cheng, S.-J., et al. (2009) · International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems · doi:10.1109/peds.2009.5385852 · Cited by 5 · see citing works
Research on active clamped ZVS-SEPIC converter
Chen, Y. C., & Gao, Y. (2010) · doi:10.1109/indusis.2010.5565847 · Cited by 1 · see citing works
Flagged first, then by citations
Cited by
Sorted by citations
Tong, Y., Salhi, I., Wang, Q., Lu, G., & Wu, S. (2025) · Energies · doi:10.3390/en18092312 · Cited by 60 · see citing works
“Furthermore, the coupled inductor design improves the system’s power density and dynamic performance, making the converter even more appealing for applications that demand high reliability and efficiency [79].”
- Authors
- Ruseler, A., & Barbi, I.
- Affiliations
- Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (BR)
- ORCID
- Barbi, Ivo
- Venue
- 2013 Brazilian Power Electronics Conference
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Published
- 2013-10
- Pages
- 123-128
- OpenAlex
- W2002753314
- Cited by
- 19
- References
- 31
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 2 · 2019: 3 · 2017: 1
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Brazilian Power Electronics Conference (COBEP) (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Advanced DC-DC Converters
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Multilevel Inverters and Converters
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Wireless Power Transfer Systems
- Keywords
- bidirectional DC-DC converter, zeta converter, SEPIC converter, active clamping, transformer leakage inductance, overvoltage protection, modulation strategy, isolated converter, uninterruptible power supply, electric vehicle charging, energy storage
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
