SiC power devices in a soft switching converter including aspects on packaging

• In many applications of power electronic converters efficiency and size are important figures of merit. Low losses in the power semiconductors as well as high frequency operation are important factors to obtain compact and highly efficient converters. The converters considered in this paper are off-line industrial power supplies (~100 kW) operating at a switching frequency range of 20-40 kHz. Replacing Si power devices by SiC counterparts enables both lower losses and increased switching frequencies. In this paper, experimental results from SiC PiN diodes, (output rectifiers) and SiC MOSFETs, (active switches) are presented.

Subject headings

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Maskinteknik -- Energiteknik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Mechanical Engineering -- Energy Engineering (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Gallium nitride

MOSFET devices

Nitrides

Power converters

Power electronics

Rectifying circuits

Semiconductor diodes

Silicon

Soft switching

Switching circuits

Switching frequency

Active switches

Figures of merits

High frequency operation

Industrial power supplies

Power electronic converters

Power semiconductors

SiC PiN diodes

Softswitching converters

Silicon carbide

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