In this paper,the bifurcation behaviour and chaos control are investigated for a DC-DC buck converter with load capacitor.Some valuable new results are obtained,e.g.,the periodicity adding windows are found in this circuit system and the measure of chaotic motion is found to converge to zero asymptotically increasing load capacitance.Moreover,it is found that the transform ratio of voltage for periodict motion is higher than that for the chaotic motion in the buck converter.These results have some applications for designing practical circuits.At the same time,chaotic behaviours of this circuit system can be effectively controlled by applying suitable periodic impulses to the system.