King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals

Hesham M Al Bar

Munir A Al-Absi

Zainulabideen Jamal Khalifa

Alaa Hussein

The capacitor-less LED drive is an LED drive circuit having a design based on the utilization of the internal capacitance of the LED to replace the smoothing capacitor in a conventional buck converter in a power supply. LED lighting systems usually have many LEDs for better illumination that can reach multiple tens of LEDs. Such a configuration can be utilized to enlarge the total internal capacitance, and hence minimize the output ripple. Also, the switching frequency of the buck converter is selected such that minimum ripple appears at the output. The functionality of the present design is confirmed experimentally, and the efficiency of the drive is 85% at full load.

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Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

Hesham M Al Bar