Gate and base drivers for silicon carbide power transistors: An overview

D Peftitsis, J Rabkowski - IEEE Transactions on Power …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silicon carbide (SiC) power transistors have started gaining significant importance in various
application areas of power electronics. During the last decade, SiC power transistors were …

Experimental and analytical performance evaluation of SiC power devices in the matrix converter

S Safari, A Castellazzi… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the commercial availability of SiC power devices, their acceptance is expected to grow
in consideration of the excellent low switching loss, high-temperature operation, and high …

Recent advances in power semiconductor technology

J Rąbkowski, D Peftitsis, HP Nee - Power electronics for …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter presents recent advances in power semiconductors technology with special
attention on wide bandgap (WBG) transistors. A short introduction to the state‐of‐the‐art …

A discretized proportional base driver for silicon carbide bipolar junction transistors

G Tolstoy, D Peftitsis, J Rabkowski… - … on Power Electronics, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silicon carbide (SiC) bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) require a continuous base current in
the on-state. This base current is usually made constant and is corresponding to the …

Conducted EMI from SiC BJT boost converter and its dependence on the output voltage, current, and heatsink connection

K Kostov, J Rabkowski, HP Nee - 2013 IEEE ECCE Asia …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In comparison to their Silicon (Si) counterparts, the Silicon Carbide (SiC) power transistors
have lower on-state resistance and higher switching speed, power and temperature ratings …

Investigation of an overvoltage protection for fast switching silicon carbide transistors

C Bödeker, N Kaminski - IET Power Electronics, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Transistors made of wide band‐gap materials such as silicon carbide (SiC) offer the
opportunity of much faster switching, and, hence, lower switching losses compared with …

[PDF][PDF] Wide bandgap (SiC/GaN) power devices characterization and modeling: Application to HF power converters

F FOREST - 2014 - pepite-depot.univ-lille.fr
After three years' work on this dissertation, it is the time to express my sincere gratitudes to
all the people who helped me, who worked together with me, who guided me, who always …

A new proportional base drive technique for SiC bipolar junction transistor

L Liao, J Wang, S Tang, Z Shuai, X Yin… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As one of the most attractive postsilicon power semiconductor devices, SiC bipolar junction
transistor (BJT) has been studied extensively and commercialized in the past few years …

A 6kW, 200kHz boost converter with parallel-connected SiC bipolar transistors

J Rabkowski, D Peftitsis, M Zdanowski… - 2013 Twenty-Eighth …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes issues related to design, construction and experimental verification of
a 6 kW, 200 kHz boost converter (300 V/600 V) built with four parallel-connected SiC bipolar …

Ultra‐fast MHz range driving circuit for SiC MOSFET using frequency multiplier with eGaN FET

T Kim, M Jang, VG Agelidis - IET Power Electronics, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This study proposes a MHz gate driving solution for silicon carbide (SiC) metal oxide
semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET), which enables multiplication of the switching …