Recent progress and development on power DC-DC converter topology, control, design and applications: A review

MZ Hossain, NA Rahim - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Over the last few decennia, power DC/DC converters have been the subject of great interest
due to its extensive increment of utilization in different applications. A thorough review on …

SiC versus Si—Evaluation of potentials for performance improvement of inverter and DC–DC converter systems by SiC power semiconductors

J Biela, M Schweizer, S Waffler… - IEEE transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Switching devices based on wide bandgap materials such as silicon carbide (SiC) offer a
significant performance improvement on the switch level (specific on resistance, etc.) …

Investigations of 600-V GaN HEMT and GaN diode for power converter applications

R Mitova, R Ghosh, U Mhaskar, D Klikic… - IEEE transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Power switching devices based on wide bandgap semiconductor materials, such as silicon
carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) offer superior performance such as low switching …

[HTML][HTML] GaN power converter and high-side IC substrate issues on Si, pn junction, or SOI

S Mönch, M Basler, R Reiner, F Benkhelifa… - e-Prime-Advances in …, 2023 - Elsevier
The lateral GaN power semiconductor technology enables monolithic integration of
complete power converter topologies such as half-bridges, multi-phase and multi-level …

Characterization and analysis of an innovative gate driver and power supplies architecture for HF power devices with high dv/dt

VS Nguyen, L Kerachev, P Lefranc… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a specific architecture for a low-side/high-side gate driver
implementation for power devices running at high switching frequencies and under very …

Dead time optimization through loss analysis of an active-clamp flyback converter utilizing GaN devices

T LaBella, B York, C Hutchens… - 2012 IEEE Energy …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an analysis of losses that occur during dead time in an active-clamp
flyback converter utilizing Gallium Nitride based MOSFETs. This analysis is used to optimize …

Gate driver supply architectures for common mode conducted EMI reduction in series connection of multiple power devices

VS Nguyen, P Lefranc… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a study on the gate driver circuitries that need to be implemented to
drive several power devices when associated in series connection. More specifically, the …

GaN HFET switching characteristics at 350V/20A and synchronous boost converter performance at 1MHz

B Hughes, J Lazar, S Hulsey, D Zehnder… - … Annual IEEE Applied …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Gallium Nitride HFET (Hetero-junction Field Effect Transistors) power switches are poised to
replace silicon MOSFETs and IGBTs in many high-performance power switching …

Three-level driving method for GaN power transistor in synchronous buck converter

X Ren, D Reusch, S Ji, Z Zhang, M Mu… - 2012 IEEE Energy …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The emerging Gallium-Nitride (GaN) based power transistors offers the potential to achieve
higher efficiency and higher switching frequencies than possible with Silicon MOSFET's …

A 10-MHz eGaN Isolated Class-Φ2 DCX

Z Zhang, XW Zou, Z Dong, Y Zhou… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Derived from the class-E resonant converters, the isolated class-Φ 2 resonant converters
have much reduced voltage stress of the control FET owing to a shunt branch paralleled with …