A feedforward active gate voltage control method for SiC MOSFET driving

A new active gate drive for Silicon carbide (SiC) metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) is proposed in this paper. The SiC MOSFET as an attractive replacement for insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) has been regarded in many high power density converters. The proposed drive...

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Autores: Ghorbani, Hamidreza|||0000-0001-9814-3277, Romeral Martínez, José Luis|||0000-0001-8112-8038
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/428715
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/428715
https://dx.doi.org/10.22055/jaree.2023.39698.1045
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Active gate driver (AGD)
SiC MOSFET
Switching condition
Feedforward control
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria electrònica::Electrònica de potència
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Sumario:A new active gate drive for Silicon carbide (SiC) metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) is proposed in this paper. The SiC MOSFET as an attractive replacement for insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) has been regarded in many high power density converters. The proposed driver is based on a feedforward control method. This simple analog gate driver (GD) improves switching transient with minimum undesirable effect on the efficiency. This paper involves the entire switching condition (turn on/off), and the GD is applied to the SiC base technology of MOSFET. To evaluate the performance of the proposed GD, it will be compared with a conventional gate driver. The presented GD is validated by experimental tests. All the evaluations are carried out in a hard switching condition and at high-frequency operation.