Review on driving circuits for wide-bandgap semiconductor switching devices for mid-to high-power applications

CT Ma, ZH Gu - Micromachines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Wide-bandgap (WBG) material-based switching devices such as gallium nitride (GaN) high
electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) and silicon carbide (SiC) metal-oxide-semiconductor …

Adaptive level-shift gate driver with indirect gate oxide health monitoring for suppressing crosstalk of SiC MOSFETs

HT Tang, HSH Chung, KJ Chen - IEEE Transactions on Power …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An adaptive level-shift gate driver with indirect gate oxide health monitoring for suppressing
crosstalk of bridge-leg configured SiC mosfet s is proposed. This article firstly presents a …

[HTML][HTML] Unbalanced currents effect on the thermal characteristic and reliability of parallel connected power switches

T Rahimi, L Ding, A Abadifard, P Ghavidel… - Case Studies in Thermal …, 2021 - Elsevier
In many industrial applications, parallel connection of power semiconductor switches is
widely used to achieve higher power levels and fault-tolerant operation. But there is a …

Passive resonant level shifter for suppression of crosstalk effect and reduction of body diode loss of SiC MOSFETs in bridge legs

HT Tang, HSH Chung, JWT Fan… - … on Power Electronics, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the presence of parasitic elements in switching devices and circuit realization,
crosstalk phenomenon in bridge-leg configurations is unavoidable. A passive resonant level …

Charge pump gate drive to reduce turn-on switching loss of SiC MOSFETs

H Gui, J Sun, LM Tolbert - IEEE Transactions on Power …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Turn-on loss is the dominant part of the switching loss for SiC MOSFET s in hard switching.
Reducing turn-on loss with conventional voltage source gate drives (VSGs) is difficult …

Gate drive technology evaluation and development to maximize switching speed of SiC discrete devices and power modules in hard switching applications

H Gui, Z Zhang, R Chen, J Niu… - IEEE Journal of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To understand the limitation of maximizing the switching speed of SiC low-current discrete
devices and high-current power modules in hard switching applications, double pulse tests …

Design of a gate driver for SiC MOSFET module for applications up to 1200 V

C Batard, N Ginot, C Bouguet - IET Power Electronics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Nowadays new silicon carbide (SiC) metal‐oxide‐semiconductor field‐effect transistors
(MOSFETs) are available in the market and they are expected to replace, in the next few …

Design and experiments of isolated gate driver using discrete devices for silicon carbide MOSFET

D Jiang, H Wang, R Wang, Z Liu, Y Liu… - IET Power …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The high temperature (HT) characteristics of silicon carbide (SiC) devices enable power
electronic converters to operate at higher ambient temperature, and the importance of HT …

A novel gate drive circuit for suppressing turn-on oscillation of non-Kelvin packaged SiC MOSFET

H Zhao, J Chen, Y Li, F Lin - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
Compared with a silicon MOSFET device, the SiC MOSFET has many benefits, such as
higher breakdown voltage, faster action speed and better thermal conductivity. These …

A Transformer Isolated Driving Method for SiC MOSFETs with a Constant Negative Off Voltage

G Yu, MG Niasar, D Ganeshpure… - 2021 IEEE 19th …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
SiC MOSFETs have become more and more popular in recent years. Apart from its superior
performance, attentions should be paid to its driving method. In this paper, an improved …