Silicon carbide converters and MEMS devices for high-temperature power electronics: A critical review

X Guo, Q Xun, Z Li, S Du - Micromachines, 2019 - mdpi.com
The significant advance of power electronics in today's market is calling for high-
performance power conversion systems and MEMS devices that can operate reliably in …

Performance evaluation of high-power SiC MOSFET modules in comparison to Si IGBT modules

L Zhang, X Yuan, X Wu, C Shi… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The higher voltage blocking capability and faster switching speed of silicon-carbide (SiC)
mosfets have the potential to replace Si insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) in medium …

Changes and challenges of photovoltaic inverter with silicon carbide device

Z Zeng, W Shao, H Chen, B Hu, W Chen, H Li… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2017 - Elsevier
High efficiency, high power density, and high reliability are always the technical trends of
converters for renewable energy applications. Silicon carbide (SiC) devices can break …

Adaptive multi-level active gate drivers for SiC power devices

S Zhao, A Dearien, Y Wu, C Farnell… - … on Power Electronics, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
State-of-the-art silicon carbide (SiC) power devices provide superior performance over
silicon devices with much higher switching frequencies/speed and lower losses. High …

Comparative study on multiple degrees of freedom of gate drivers for transient behavior regulation of SiC MOSFET

Z Zeng, X Li - IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Because of fast switching speeds and inevitable stray parameters, the efficiency, security,
and stability properties of SiC mosfets in practice are challenged by voltage and current …

A low gate turn-off impedance driver for suppressing crosstalk of SiC MOSFET based on different discrete packages

Y Li, M Liang, J Chen, TQ Zheng… - IEEE Journal of Emerging …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Because of higher switching speed of silicon carbide MOSFET, the crosstalk in a phase-leg
configuration will be more serious, which hinders the increase of switching frequency and …

An improved active crosstalk suppression method for high-speed SiC MOSFETs

P Wang, L Zhang, X Lu, H Sun… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silicon carbide (SiC) power electronic devices feature the advantages of fast switching
speed, low conduction loss, and reliable operation in high temperature environment, etc …

Gate driver with high common mode rejection and self turn-on mitigation for a 10 kV SiC MOSFET enabled MV converter

DN Dalal, N Christensen, AB Jørgensen… - 2017 19th European …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates gate driver design challenges encountered due to the fast switching
transients in medium voltage half bridge silicon carbide MOSFET power modules. The paper …

An accurate subcircuit model of SiC half-bridge module for switching-loss optimization

S Yin, P Tu, P Wang, KJ Tseng, C Qi… - IEEE Transactions …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The increasing demand for high power density requires the power converter to operate in
high switching frequency. Silicon carbide (SiC) power module is regarded as one of the …

A novel gate assisted circuit to reduce switching loss and eliminate shoot-through in SiC half bridge configuration

S Yin, KJ Tseng, CF Tong… - 2016 IEEE Applied …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The trend towards SiC-based high power density converter requires to drive SiC MOSFET
with high-speed switching. However, it tends to aggravate dv/dt effect due to the impact of …