Review of commercial GaN power devices and GaN-based converter design challenges

EA Jones, FF Wang, D Costinett - IEEE journal of emerging and …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Gallium nitride (GaN) power devices are an emerging technology that have only recently
become available commercially. This new technology enables the design of converters at …

A review of switching oscillations of wide bandgap semiconductor devices

J Chen, X Du, Q Luo, X Zhang, P Sun… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wide bandgap (WBG) devices offer the advantages of high frequency, high efficiency, and
high power density to power converters due to their excellent performance. However, their …

Methodology for wide band-gap device dynamic characterization

Z Zhang, B Guo, FF Wang, EA Jones… - … on Power Electronics, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The double pulse test (DPT) is a widely accepted method to evaluate the dynamic behavior
of power devices. Considering the high switching-speed capability of wide band-gap …

A 6.6-kW high-frequency wireless power transfer system for electric vehicle charging using multilayer nonuniform self-resonant coil at MHz

R Qin, J Li, D Costinett - IEEE Transactions on Power …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A high-power, high-frequency wireless power transfer system for electric vehicles (EVs) is
proposed in this article with lightweight and compact coil design. Leveraging a multilayer …

High-bandwidth low-inductance current shunt for wide-bandgap devices dynamic characterization

W Zhang, Z Zhang, F Wang, EV Brush… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High bandwidth sensors are required to measure the wide-bandgap devices' transient
behavior because of their fast switching speed. In addition to high bandwidth, the current …

Design and Implementation of a GaN-Based, 100-kHz, 102-W/in3 Single-Phase Inverter

C Zhao, B Trento, L Jiang, EA Jones… - IEEE Journal of …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High power density is a desirable feature of power electronics design, which prompts
economic incentives for industrial applications. In this paper, a gallium nitride (GaN)-based 2 …

A high-bandwidth integrated current measurement for detecting switching current of fast GaN devices

K Wang, X Yang, H Li, L Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Gallium nitride (GaN) devices are suitable for high-frequency power converters due to their
excellent switching performance. To maximize the performance of GaN devices, it is …

A smart gate driver IC for GaN power HEMTs with dynamic ringing suppression

WJ Zhang, J Yu, WT Cui, Y Leng… - … on Power Electronics, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Conventional di/dt and dv/dt control and gate protection techniques for gallium nitride (GaN)
power transistors usually employ external controllers, isolation circuits, discrete pull-up, and …

Smart self-driving multilevel gate driver for fast switching and crosstalk suppression of SiC MOSFETs

C Liu, Z Zhang, Y Liu, Y Si, Q Lei - IEEE Journal of Emerging …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wide-bandgap devices, such as silicon carbide and gallium nitride, have high switching
speed potential. However, the actual speed in practical application is limited by circuit …

New synergetic control of a 20kw isolated vienna rectifier front-end ev battery charger

JA Anderson, M Haider, D Bortis… - 2019 20th Workshop …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
EV chargers with output power levels in the range of tens of kW are typically employing a
front-end three-phase boost-type PFC rectifier stage for sinusoidal input current and DC-link …