Conclusions

Abstract

This book focuses on the capacitive DC–DC converter as an alternative for the conventional inductive type of DC–DC converters. In fact the field of capacitive DC–DC conversion is little explored compared to the extensive literature that exists on inductive type of converters. This not without reason of course, since capacitive DC–DC converters typically require a larger number of components than inductive converters. Moreover the capacitive nature prohibits lossless conversion, in contrast to inductive converters which ideally achieve 100 % efficiency at a finite switching frequency. Clearly there are enough reasons to prefer an inductive DC–DC converter over a capacitive type.