Lossless Snubber for GaN-Based Flyback Converter With Common Mode Noise Consideration

Abstract

The previous lossless snubber for flyback converters, although with a small number of components, simple control and high power conversion efficiency, has no consideration for electromagnetic interference (EMI). This paper proposes a lossless snubber converter with a novel drain voltage rising slew rate control for the main switch of the flyback converter. Compared to traditional topologies, the proposed snubber topology has two advantages: first, only an additional inductor is used. Second, the proposed method can reduce EMI emissions significantly. Finally, a prototype of the proposed snubber is built and verified with two existing similar snubbers.

Keywords

• Lossless snubber
• energy regenerative snubber
• EMI
• converter
• common mode noise