An analysis of multiple factors affecting converter output
Location
Ada, Ohio
Start Date
9-12-2025 1:20 PM
End Date
9-12-2025 1:30 PM
Description
This study is focused on an analysis of multiple factors affecting converter output. Converters exist in almost every electronic product produced today, often to change one voltage to another or rectify an AC input to a DC output. Using the most efficient methods for designing and implementing these circuits can have an outsized impact on the products we utilize.
The purpose of this paper is to provide an educational overview to component selection in non-isolated, asynchronous power converters, including a detailed analysis of the underlying factors that make each component impactful to the final outputs in a variety of different DC-DC converters. The effects of the mechanisms detailed in this study also affect many AC-DC converters and other power-delivering circuits.
This study includes a comprehensive synopsis of the non-ideal behavior of diodes and transistors, and methods to predict the effects those inefficiencies have on a converter’s output. In many low-voltage or high-current applications, these non-ideal behaviors can have an outsized impact on a converter’s output, if not properly mitigated. Specific analysis has been included for a range of inexpensive, widely available diodes (including the1N4001, 1N4148, and multiple schottky diodes), and analytic equations and processes are outlined for general analysis of any component in a wide range of applications.
Outside of component analysis, inefficiencies and idiosyncrasies present in the spice based softwares LTSpice and QSpice have been compiled with possible mitigation strategies and suggestions. During converter design and simulation, these idiosyncrasies can produce a significant difference in the simulated outputs from calculated or real- world values, especially in converters operating at a high frequency.
Recommended Citation
Turner, Toben, "An analysis of multiple factors affecting converter output" (2025). College of Engineering Student Research Colloquium. 8.
https://digitalcommons.onu.edu/eng_student_research_colloquium/2025/Presentations/8
An analysis of multiple factors affecting converter output
Ada, Ohio
This study is focused on an analysis of multiple factors affecting converter output. Converters exist in almost every electronic product produced today, often to change one voltage to another or rectify an AC input to a DC output. Using the most efficient methods for designing and implementing these circuits can have an outsized impact on the products we utilize.
The purpose of this paper is to provide an educational overview to component selection in non-isolated, asynchronous power converters, including a detailed analysis of the underlying factors that make each component impactful to the final outputs in a variety of different DC-DC converters. The effects of the mechanisms detailed in this study also affect many AC-DC converters and other power-delivering circuits.
This study includes a comprehensive synopsis of the non-ideal behavior of diodes and transistors, and methods to predict the effects those inefficiencies have on a converter’s output. In many low-voltage or high-current applications, these non-ideal behaviors can have an outsized impact on a converter’s output, if not properly mitigated. Specific analysis has been included for a range of inexpensive, widely available diodes (including the1N4001, 1N4148, and multiple schottky diodes), and analytic equations and processes are outlined for general analysis of any component in a wide range of applications.
Outside of component analysis, inefficiencies and idiosyncrasies present in the spice based softwares LTSpice and QSpice have been compiled with possible mitigation strategies and suggestions. During converter design and simulation, these idiosyncrasies can produce a significant difference in the simulated outputs from calculated or real- world values, especially in converters operating at a high frequency.