Table 3.

Comparison of the proposed Q⁴HGC and some similar converters.

Attributes	Converter presented in						Proposed Q4HGC
	31	34	35	36	37	39
V in	27 V	12 V	45 V	20	48	18 V	16 V
V 0	400 V	170 V	800 V	650 V	650	380 V	400 V
M	14.81	14.16	17.78	32.5	13.5	21.1	25
D	0.5	0.48	0.632	0.63	0.48	δ0 = 0.50 δ3 = 0.57	δ1 = 0.50 δ3 = 0.46
N mag	2 (1 simple inductor and 2 CI)	3	3	3	3	4	5
N Sw	2	1	1	1	1	3	3
N Di	4	7	5	7	7	5	7
TCU	12	16	12	16	16	16	20
M/TCU	1.2	0.885	1.481	2.03	0.846	1.31	1.25
M/TCU at δ = 0.5	1.25	1	0.667	0.9375	1	1	1.6
Current stress of the switch (% of Iin)	Min = 60% Max = 100%	Min = 194% Max = 194%	Min = 150% Max = 150%	Min = 100% Max = 100%	Min = 194% Max = 194%	Min = 39% Max = 100%	Min = 46% Max = 100%
Source current nature	Pulsating	Continuous with ripple	Pulsating	Pulsating	Pulsating	Ripple-free	Ripple-free
Gain extension technique	QBC with coupled inductor and DCM	Single Switch Cubic Boost Converter with SCs	Active inductor-capacitor-two diodes (LC2D) network	active switched inductor-capacitor network (SLCN)-based	active switched inductor-capacitor network (SLCN)-based	IBC with lift capacitor cascaded to QBC	Floating Capacitor based cubic Cell + IBC
Voltage gain function	Quadratic	Quadratic	Cubic	Cubic	Quartic	Cubic	Quartic
η (%)	94.9	–	91.6	90.04	95.48	95.6	92.7

N_mag no. of magnetic elements, N_Sw no. of switches, N_Di no. of diodes, TCU total components used.