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High Temperature Passive Components for Extreme Environments
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering (EES), Electric Power and Energy Systems.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6184-6470
KTH, School of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Integrated Devices and Circuits.
KTH, School of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Integrated Devices and Circuits.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7845-3988
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering (EES), Electric Power and Energy Systems.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1755-1365
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Silicon carbide is an excellent candidate when high temperature power electronics applications are considered. Integrated circuits as well as several power devices have been tested at high temperature. However, little attention has been paid to high temperature passive components that could enable the full SiC potential. In this work, the high temperature performances of different passive components have been studied. Integrated capacitors in bipolar SiC technology has been tested up to 300 °C and, two different designs of inductors have been tested up to 600 °C.

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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-192625OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-192625DiVA, id: diva2:971371
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QC 20160921

Available from: 2016-09-16 Created: 2016-09-16 Last updated: 2022-09-13Bibliographically approved
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1. Extreme Implementations of Wide-Bandgap Semiconductors in Power Electronics
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Extreme Implementations of Wide-Bandgap Semiconductors in Power Electronics
2016 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
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Wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductor materials such as silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium-nitride (GaN) allow higher voltage ratings, lower on-state voltage drops, higher switching frequencies, and higher maximum temperatures. All these advantages make them an attractive choice when high-power density and high-efficiency converters are targeted. Two different gate-driver designs for SiC power devices are presented. First, a dual-function gate-driver for a power module populated with SiC junction field-effect transistors that finds a trade-off between fast switching speeds and a low oscillative performance has been presented and experimentally verified. Second, a gate-driver for SiC metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors with a short-circuit protection scheme that is able to protect the converter against short-circuit conditions without compromising the switching performance during normal operation is presented and experimentally validated. The benefits and issues of using parallel-connection as the design strategy for high-efficiency and high-power converters have been presented. In order to evaluate parallel connection, a 312 kVA three-phase SiC inverter with an efficiency of 99.3 % has been designed, built, and experimentally verified. If parallel connection is chosen as design direction, an undesired trade-off between reliability and efficiency is introduced. A reliability analysis has been performed, which has shown that the gate-source voltage stress determines the reliability of the entire system. Decreasing the positive gate-source voltage could increase the reliability without significantly affecting the efficiency. If high-temperature applications are considered, relatively little attention has been paid to passive components for harsh environments. This thesis also addresses high-temperature operation. The high-temperature performance of two different designs of inductors have been tested up to 600_C. Finally, a GaN power field-effect transistor was characterized down to cryogenic temperatures. An 85 % reduction of the on-state resistance was measured at −195_C. Finally, an experimental evaluation of a 1 kW singlephase inverter at low temperatures was performed. A 33 % reduction in losses compared to room temperature was achieved at rated power.

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Stockholm: KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 2016. p. 101
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TRITA-EE, ISSN 1653-5146 ; 2016:145
Keywords
Cryogenic, Gallium Nitride, Gate Driver, Harsh Environments, High Efficiency Converter, High Temperature, MOSFETs, Normally- ON JFETs, Reliability, Silicon Carbide, Wide-Band Gap Semiconductors
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Other Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
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Electrical Engineering
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urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-192626 (URN)978-91-7729-109-1 (ISBN)
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2016-10-14, Kollegiesalen, Brinellvägen 8, KTH-huset, KTH, Stockholm, 09:53 (English)
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QC 20160922

Available from: 2016-09-22 Created: 2016-09-16 Last updated: 2022-06-22Bibliographically approved

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