A new control strategy for an AC/DC converter based on a piezoelectric transformer

Piezoelectric transformers (PTs) are an attractive solution to reduce size and weight in ac/dc converters. In this paper, a PT-based topology is presented together with a control method. As an application, an 8-W ac/dc adapter (110 V/sub AC/ input, 12 V/sub DC/ output) is presented operating at frequencies around 500 kHz.