When single-phase full-bridge rectifier works in the hard-switching state
with the increasing of switching frequency and output power
the switching loss will increase significantly
which has negative influence on the efficiency of the rectifier. In order to solve this problem
a single-phase full-bridge soft-switching rectifier is proposed. When the rectifier is in the dead state
the voltage across the resonant capacitor in parallel with the main switch can decrease to zero via the resonance of the auxiliary circuit. The main switch can achieve zero-voltage switching
and the bidirectional auxiliary switch can achieve zero-current switching. The commutation process of the rectifier is analyzed. The experimental results show that the main switch and auxiliary switch can achieve soft-switching. Therefore
the single-phase full-bridge soft-switching rectifier can achieve high-efficiency operation with high switching frequency.