Performance evaluation of high voltage super junction MOSFETs for zero-voltage soft-switching inverter applications

Author

Park, Sung-Yeul ; Sun, Pengwei ; Yu, Wensong ; Lai, Jih-Sheng

Author_Institution

Center for Clean Energy Eng. Storrs, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

21-25 Feb. 2010

Firstpage

387

Lastpage

391

Abstract

This paper evaluates three different 600V-level super junction (SJ) MOSFETs employed in zero-voltage soft-switching inverter applications. Inverter efficiency was measured and compared with the same inverter test setup by only changing different MOSFETs. Besides high efficiency requirement, better switching performance is also highly appreciated in various inverter applications. Comparison test was done on each super junction MOSFET to investigate its body diode reverse recovery and associated problems. Based on performance of both efficiency and reverse recovery related issues, a high voltage super junction MOSFET selection for soft-switching inverter was suggested.

Keywords

invertors; power MOSFET; body diode reverse recovery; high voltage super junction MOSFET; inverter efficiency measurement; performance evaluation; voltage 600 V; zero-voltage soft-switching inverter application; Diodes; Electromagnetic interference; Immune system; Inverters; MOSFETs; Magnetic resonance; Microelectronics; Power engineering and energy; Testing; Zero voltage switching;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), 2010 Twenty-Fifth Annual IEEE

Conference_Location

Palm Springs, CA

ISSN

1048-2334

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4782-4

Electronic_ISBN

1048-2334

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APEC.2010.5433641

Filename

5433641