Syllabus

Soft switching Converters: Switching loss, basic principles of hard and soft switching.

Evolution of resonant converter topologies. Resonant Load Converters: analysis of series, parallel, LCC and LLC topologies. Resonant Switch Converters (quasi resonant). Resonant Transition Converters- phase modulated topologies, Soft Switched low power high frequency converters
with Auxiliary Switch. Emerging trends in low power high frequency soft switched converters.

Dual Active Bridge (DAB) converters: Operation, design and control, applications. Different types of phase shift control scheme. Modelling and control of DAB converters using generalized averaging. Application of modular topologies with DAB as the core circuit in Microgrids, distributed generation, multiport topologies for interfacing renewable energy resources, storage and hybrid microgrids.