Review on driving circuits for wide-bandgap semiconductor switching devices for mid-to high-power applications

CT Ma, ZH Gu - Micromachines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Wide-bandgap (WBG) material-based switching devices such as gallium nitride (GaN) high
electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) and silicon carbide (SiC) metal-oxide-semiconductor …

[HTML][HTML] Advanced voltage balancing techniques for series-connected SiC-MOSFET devices: A comprehensive survey

LFS Alves, P Lefranc, PO Jeannin, B Sarrazin - Power Electronic Devices …, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper presents a comprehensive survey of voltage balancing techniques for series-
connected SiC-MOSFETs. The concept of connecting power devices in series is appealing …

Design and comparison of passive gate driver solution for series-connected power devices in DC circuit breaker applications

J Liu, L Ravi, D Dong, R Burgos… - 2021 IEEE Fourth …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The dc circuit breaker (DCCB) plays an important protection role in the dc distribution
systems. And series power device stack is usually employed in the solid-state circuit breaker …

A cascaded gate driver architecture to increase the switching speed of power devices in series connection

LFS Alves, VS Nguyen, P Lefranc… - IEEE Journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a cascaded gate driver (CGDA) architecture to improve the switching
speed of series-connected power devices. The main idea is to propose a new technique to …

An enhanced single gate driven voltage‐balanced SiC MOSFET stack topology suitable for high‐voltage low‐power applications

R Wang, AB Jørgensen… - IET Power Electronics, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In the fabrication of some high‐voltage low‐power applications, low cost is much concerned,
and thus using silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFET stack consisting of series connected low …

Short-circuit characteristic of single gate driven SiC MOSFET stack and its improvement with strong antishort circuit fault capabilities

R Wang, AB Jørgensen, H Zhao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The single gate driven series connected power device stack possesses the advantages of
high compactness and low cost. However, research of its short circuit (SC) characteristic …

Power Loss Modelling and Performance Comparison of Three-Level GaN-Based Inverters Used for Electric Traction

A Sujeeth, A Di Cataldo, LD Tornello, M Pulvirenti… - Energies, 2024 - mdpi.com
The main aim of this work is to present a step-by-step procedure to model and analyze the
power loss distribution of three-level Gallium Nitride (GaN) inverters. It has been applied to …

Performance evaluation of a grid‐connected three‐phase six‐switch boost‐type current source PV inverter under different switching strategies

K Ezzeddine, M Hamouda, MA Belaid… - … on Electrical Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, boost‐type current source inverters (CSIs) have received a considerable attention
in grid connected photovoltaic (PV) applications thanks to their salient features such as high …

A cost-efficient Current-Source Gate Driver for SiC MOSFET Module and its Comparison with Voltage-Source Gate Driver

X Wang, H Wu, V Pickert - 2020 IEEE 9th International Power …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A current-source gate driver (CSG) is considered as a candidate to improve the switching
performance of Silicon Carbide (SiC) MOSFET compared with a SiC MOSFET powered by a …

Comparison of two types of single gate drivers for SiC MOSFET stacks in flyback converters

R Wang, H Zhao… - 2021 IEEE Workshop on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In some high-voltage low-power applications, silicon carbide metal-oxide-semiconductor
field-effect transistor (SiC MOSFET) stack is required to withstand the high voltage. Instead …