High Performance Silicon Carbide Power Block for Industry Applications

Xu She; Rajib Datta; Maja Harfman Todorovic; Gary Mandrusiak; Jian Dai; Tony Frangieh; Philip Cioffi; Brian Rowden; Frank Mueller

doi:10.1109/TIA.2017.2679688

High Performance Silicon Carbide Power Block for Industry Applications

Xu She, Rajib Datta, Maja Harfman Todorovic, Gary Mandrusiak, Jian Dai, Tony Frangieh, Philip Cioffi, Brian Rowden, Frank Mueller

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Abstract

Silicone carbide (SiC) power devices have been optimized in performance over the past decade. However, wide industry adoption of SiC technology still faces challenges from system design perspective. This paper demonstrates an integrated air-cooled three-phase SiC power block for industry applications. The key design aspects, such as high performance gate driver, low parasitic layout, optimized thermal management, as well as flexible control platform are addressed. Experimental results are provided to demonstrate the superior performance of the design.

Original language	English
Article number	7874088
Pages (from-to)	3738-3747
Number of pages	10
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
Volume	53
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TIA.2017.2679688
State	Published - Jul 1 2017
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Control platform
gate driver
module
power block
silicone carbide (SiC)
switching characteristics
thermal management

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