Experimental Evaluation of SiC BJTs and SiC MOSFETs in a Series-Loaded Resonant Converter

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作者
Tolstoy, Georg [1 ]
Ranstad, Per [2 ]
Colmenares, Juan [1 ]
Giezendanner, Florian [2 ]
Nee, Hans-Peter [1 ]
机构
[1] KTH Royal Inst Technol, Teknikringen 33, Stockholm, Sweden
[2] Alstom Power, Vaxjo, Sweden
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2015 17TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON POWER ELECTRONICS AND APPLICATIONS (EPE'15 ECCE-EUROPE) | 2015年
关键词
Soft switching; Resonant converter; Silicon Carbide (SiC); High frequency power converter; Converter control;
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TE [石油、天然气工业]; TK [能源与动力工程];
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0807 ; 0820 ;
摘要
SiC devices such as MOSFETs and BJTs have proven themselves to be contenders to improve the efficiency of resonant converters. The losses of the full-bridge inverter are well below 1% of the rated power at switching frequencies up to 200 kHz, making it possible to reach even higher frequencies. An experimental setup is built and two different full-bridge inverters are tested. One is built with SiC MOSFETs and no additional anti-parallel diodes and one with SiC BJTs and SiC Schottky diodes.
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