A review of silicon carbide MOSFETs in electrified vehicles: Application, challenges, and future development

B Shi, AI Ramones, Y Liu, H Wang, Y Li… - IET Power …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Compared with silicon‐based Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors (IGBTs), silicon carbide
(SiC) Metal‐Oxide‐Semiconductor Field‐Effect Transistors (MOSFETs) are characterized by …

Thermal Consideration and Design for a 200 kW SiC-Based High-Density Three-Phase Inverter in More Electric Aircraft

CW Chang, X Zhao, R Phukan… - IEEE Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As advances in semiconductor, dielectric, and magnetic materials enhance the power
density of power conversion systems, the emphasis on efficient cooling solutions becomes …

Weight-minimizing optimization of microchannel cold plate for SiC-based power inverters in more-electric aircraft

CW Chang, X Zhao, R Phukan, D Dong… - 2022 IEEE Energy …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silicon-Carbide (SiC) devices are now a strong candidate for high-power inverter systems.
However, in high-altitude applications like More-Electric Aircraft (MEA), the decreasing air …

Evaluation and efficiency comparison of soft-switching ARCP SiC-based traction inverters in electric vehicles

CW Chang, M Spieler, R Burgos… - 2023 IEEE Applied …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The hard-switching (HS) two-level (2-L) topology with no EMI filters dominates in traction
inverters for electric vehicles. Alternatively, by adopting the soft-switching (SS) auxiliary …

A DC-Bus Planar Rogowski Coil Based Current Sensor for Half-Bridge Applications

M Spieler, CW Chang, A El-Refaie… - 2023 IEEE 24th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates the utilization of a planar Rogowski coil located between the dc-bus
traces to measure the half-bridge's switching transient current. The sensor's fundamentals …

High-Density Forced Air-Cooling Duct for 211-kW SiC-Based Aircraft Propulsion Inverters

CW Chang, X Zhao, R Phukan… - 2023 IEEE Energy …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Thermal management determines the reliability and robustness of the high-power inverters.
For high-altitude propulsion inverters, thermal management becomes more challenging due …

A Compact Vertically Stacked Converter Module with Thermal Balancing and High-Power Dissipation Capability

J Liang, Q Liu, T Liu, WT Ng - 2024 IEEE Applied Power …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A compact vertically stacked buck converter is designed with improved thermal performance.
Three copper core PCBs and two vertical double-diffused MOSFETs (VDMOS), in TO …

A Study on Optimized SiC Half Bridge Through PCB Embedding

T Duman, O Koenig, C Abart, R Greul… - … Congress & Expo …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To demonstrate the benefits of advanced PCB manufacturing technologies in power
electronics, this study presents a PCB embedded SiC half bridge design and compares its …

Power Electronics for Automotive Electric Drivetrains–Design and Optimization

M Hepp, J Weigold, M Ebli, A Nisch… - … of Power Electronics …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Inverters of electric drivetrains have high requirements which need to be considered during
development: Efficiency, power density and economic goals have to be met at output powers …