Multiple Input-Terminal Voltage Multiplier Circuit

Voltage multipliers (VMs) are widely used not only in high voltage gain rectifier applications but also some traditional dc/dc converters to improve voltage conversion ratio. However, as the fixed number of its input-terminals, it is hard to traditional VM circuits to make a balance between the voltage and current stress on capacitors. In order to address such drawback of traditional VMs, a multiple input-terminal VM (MIVM) circuit is presented in this paper. The design flexibility of the proposed MIVM is better than traditional VMs. Analysis of the operation principles and the performance characteristics of the proposed MIVM circuit are presented in detail. And the efficacy of the theoretical analysis is validated experimentally.