Gate drivers for medium-voltage SiC devices

A Anurag, S Acharya, N Kolli… - IEEE Journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Extensive research in wide-bandgap material technology such as silicon carbide (SiC) has
led to the development of medium-voltage (MV) power semiconductor devices with blocking …

Design Considerations and Development of an Innovative Gate Driver for Medium-Voltage Power Devices With High

A Anurag, S Acharya, Y Prabowo… - … on Power Electronics, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Medium-voltage (MV) silicon carbide (SiC) devices have opened up new areas of
applications which were previously dominated by silicon-based IGBTs. From the perspective …

An active voltage balancing control based on adjusting driving signal time delay for series-connected SiC MOSFETs

T Wang, H Lin, S Liu - IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Limited by low availability, high price, and poor switching performance of high-voltage
power devices, connecting low-voltage devices in series to block much higher voltages is …

Experimental investigation on the transient switching behavior of SiC MOSFETs using a stage-wise gate driver

G Engelmann, T Senoner… - CPSS Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A multiple stage gate driver for SiC MOSFETs based on a switched resistor topology is
introduced and a hardware realization is presented. The measurement setup is shown in …

A single voltage-balancing gate driver combined with limiting snubber circuits for series-connected SiC MOSFETs

R Wang, L Liang, Y Chen… - IEEE Journal of Emerging …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silicon carbide (SiC) metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) are
required to be connected in series to meet the high-voltage requirement since the blocking …

[HTML][HTML] Review of Voltage Balancing Techniques for Series-Connected SiC Metal–Oxide–Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistors

L Sun, M Qiao, Y Xia, B Wu, F Chen - Energies, 2024 - mdpi.com
Power devices in series are low-voltage power devices used in medium-and high-voltage
applications in a more direct program. However, when power devices in series are used …

Gate Drivers for High-Frequency Application of Silicon-Carbide MOSFETs: Design considerations for faster growth of LV and MV applications

A Anurag, S Acharya… - IEEE Power Electronics …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the advent of wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductor devices, silicon-carbide (SiC)-
based MOSFETs for high voltage and current serve as a viable replacement for conventional …

Protection design considerations of a 10 kV SiC MOSFET enabled mobile utilities support equipment based solid state transformer (MUSE-SST)

VN Jakka, S Acharya, A Anurag… - IECON 2018-44th …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Solid state transformers (SSTs) are evolved as an emerging technology which offer several
key features in integrating different grids, storage devices, and renewable energy sources …

Switching and short-circuit performance of 27 nm gate oxide, 650 V SiC planar-gate MOSFETs with 10 to 15 V gate drive voltage

A Agarwal, A Kanale, K Han… - 2020 32nd International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, the switching and short-circuit performance of 650 V (BV= 850V) 4H-SiC
planar-gate MOSFETs with a gate oxide thickness of 27 nm are reported for the first time …

Experiment result of high frequency switching SiC mosfet gate driver

AW Kurniawan, E Firmansyah… - 2022 14th International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
DC-DC converter battery charger application commonly applied a high-frequency switching
method. The high-frequency technique aims for a smaller size transformer size and weight …