A temperature dependent simple spice based modeling platform for power IGBT modules

Author

Sfakianakis, Georgios ; Nawaz, Muhammad ; Chimento, Filippo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Electromech. & Power Electron. group, Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Eindhoven, Netherlands

fYear

2014

fDate

14-18 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

2873

Lastpage

2879

Abstract

This paper deals with the development of a PSpice based temperature dependent modelling platform for the evaluation of silicon based IGBT power modules. The developed device modelling platform is intended to be used for the design and assessment of converter valves/cells for potential high power applications in transmission and distribution networks. An extended version of a previous modelling platform implemented in PSpice is presented here taking into account temperature dependence up to (and even beyond) the specified junction temperature of 125°C of 4.5kV StakPak power modules. A set of device modelling parameters (both for IGBTs and diodes) have first been extracted and verified with static and dynamic comparison of experimental data from 4.5kV and 2.0kA Si based IGBT power modules. An overall fair comparison is achieved with varying set of bus voltages and load currents and at different temperatures.

Keywords

SPICE; insulated gate bipolar transistors; power semiconductor devices; bus voltages; converter cells; converter valves; current 2 kA; distribution networks; load currents; power IGBT modules; temperature 125 degC; temperature dependent simple Spice based modeling platform; transmission networks; voltage 4.5 kV; Insulated gate bipolar transistors; Integrated circuit modeling; Load modeling; Logic gates; Mathematical model; Multichip modules; Temperature dependence; Device Modeling; IGBTs; Power Semiconductor Modules; Semiconductor Devices; Spice Modeling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), 2014 IEEE

Conference_Location

Pittsburgh, PA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECCE.2014.6953788

Filename

6953788