Series SiC MOSFET-Based low gain buck converter for enabling access to MVDC network

ISSA, Walid, ORTIZ-GONZALEZ, Jose and HU, Yihua (2022). Series SiC MOSFET-Based low gain buck converter for enabling access to MVDC network. In: 11th International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD 2022). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 434-438.

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Abstract

Low-gain buck converters will enable low voltage loads to access high voltage DC sources by a single stage converter at very low duty cycles. SiC MOSFETs are still limited to 1.7kV commercially and by seriesing them with adequate gate driving strategy, high voltages can be switched. This paper proposes a driving circuit for series SiC MOSFETs to block higher voltages. The driving circuit provides negative off-state voltage and turn on/off transitions in less than 100ns. The low-gain buck converter performance is assessed when using a single IGBT switch and series SiC MOSFETs. A simulation is implemented and shows the superiority of the proposed driven series SiC MOSFETs with distributed voltage and thermal stresses.

Item Type:	Book Section
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1049/icp.2022.1033
Page Range:	434-438
SWORD Depositor:	Symplectic Elements
Depositing User:	Symplectic Elements
Date Deposited:	19 May 2022 15:01
Last Modified:	31 Aug 2022 14:31
URI:	https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/30250

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