Despite the emerging multi-phase and multi-level converters, two-level insulated gate
bipolar transistor-based power converters are still widely used in industrial applications in …

Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors (IGBTs) are key component in power converters.
Reliability of power converters depend on wear-out process of power modules. A physical …

Power cycling test is one of the important tasks to investigate the reliability performance of
power device modules in respect to temperature stress. From this, it is able to predict the …

Power electronic systems have gradually gained an important status in a wide range of
industrial applications such as renewable generation, motor drives, automotive, and railway …

A simple Vce online monitoring circuit is presented in this paper. It allows an accurate wear
out prediction of IGBT modules, in high-power applications, during normal converter …

Power conversion systems are dependent on the performance and reliability of static
converters. However, they are subject to frequent functional and environmental strains …

The real-time junction temperature monitoring of a high-power insulated-gate bipolar
transistor (IGBT) module is important to increase the overall reliability of power converters for …

This paper presents a series of experiment results on the ageing effects of cyclic junction
temperature variations (ΔT j) of low amplitudes in power modules, to help the capturing of …

High thermal and electrical stress, over a period of time tends to deteriorate the health of
power electronic switches. Being a key element in any high-power converter systems, power …

Insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) failures are a major issue in modern power
electronics applications. Two most dominated failure mechanisms of IGBTs are solder …