Unlocking the Opportunities of Bidirectional GaN Devices in Isolated DC/DC Converters and Multilevel Inverters

R Barzegarkhoo, T Pereira… - CIPS 2024; 13th …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Bi-directional power devices are based on four-quadrant operation to block a stress voltage
in both polarities and to conduct symmetric current. Typically, their major utilization is either …

Analytical Modelling of Fault Transient in a GaN HEMT Half Bridge and its Overcurrent Protection with PCB Embedded Rogowski Coils

PTN Kishore, SK Pramanick… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The low Short Circuit Withstand Time (SCWT) offered by GaN HEMTs imposes challenges
on their reliability, especially in medium to high power applications such as electric vehicle …

A Simple Thermal Model for Junction and Hot Spot Temperature Estimation of 650 V GaN HEMT during Short Circuit

S Palazzo, A Sanseverino, G Canale Parola, E Martano… - Electronics, 2024 - mdpi.com
Temperature is a critical parameter for the GaN HEMT as it sharply impacts the electrical
characteristics of the device more than for SiC or Si MOSFETs. Either when designing a …

Enhanced Behavioral Modeling for Short-Circuit Ruggedness Analysis in GaN-based Half-Bridge

S Palazzo, T Pereira, Y Pascal, G Busatto… - Authorea Preprints, 2023 - techrxiv.org
Gallium Nitride (GaN) transistors are gaining popularity in industrial and automotive
applications due to their ability to achieve high power density and higher efficiency …

Short-Circuit Operation of a 650-V/60-A GaN-Based Half-Bridge

S Palazzo, A Sanseverino, F Velardi… - Annual Meeting of the …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The Short-Circuit (SC) robustness of GaN HEMTs represents a relevant issue for
their use in power electronics. The research only focused on type I SC behavior of the single …

Check for Extremum Seeking Control for the Efficiency Optimization of a Multi-stage Converter

N Zanatta, IDT Caldognetto, D Biadene… - Proceedings of SIE …, 2023 - books.google.com
The article introduces an extremum seeking control (ESC) technique for determining the
optimal operating points of a multi-stage converter named twin-bus buck converter (TBB)[8] …