Mühendislik Fakültesi / Faculty of Engineering Elektrik - Elektronik Mühendisliği / Electrical-Electronic EngineeringEhsani, MortezaBilgiç, Mehmet OruçKhan, S.Laskai, L.Jeong, Seung-Gi2018-10-312018-10-311995https://doi.org/10.1109/63.391950https://hdl.handle.net/11413/3022The bang-bang controlled capacitor coupled converter (C³) is described in this paper. Due to the converter's inherent commutating property, the C³ can accommodate thyristors as well as high-power gate turn-off switches, due to zero-current switching transitions. The zero-current switching is achieved at no current stress increase, therefore, the topology is considered appropriate for high-power processing. DC and small signal AC models are derived for the bang-bang controlled C³, a design procedure is proposed, and simulation results are discussed. Finally, oscillograms from a proof of principle prototype circuit are presenteden-USPower ElectronicsConverterArticle