Coreless printed circuit board (PCB) transformers with multiple secondary windings for complementary gate drive circuits

This paper describes the modeling and implementation of a coreless printed circuit board (PCB)-based transformer with "multiple" secondary outputs. This new PCB transformer has been successfully applied in complementary gate drive circuits in a novel low-profile power converter with high-power density and a converter bridge. The PCB-based transformers do not require the manual winding procedure and thus simplify the manufacturing process of transformer-isolated gate drive circuits. The use of the multiple secondary outputs can in principle simplify the complementary gate drive circuits that are often required in many power electronics applications.