A high density 3.3 kW isolated on-vehicle battery charger using SiC SBDs and SiC DMOSFETs

Author

Han, Timothy J. ; Preston, Jared ; Jang, Seok J. ; Ouwerkerk, David

Author_Institution

Global Power Electron., Inc., Lake Forest, CA, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

15-18 June 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

We present a 3.3kW on-vehicle battery charger (OBC) for plug-in hybrid electrical vehicles and battery electric vehicles. The OBC is developed with a semi-bridgeless front-end PFC boost converter followed by a ZVS full bridge DC-DC converter. The performance of the PFC boost is analyzed and measured using different switching power devices. The test data is measured in the same system, at the same points of operation, using the conventional Si SJMOSFETs and Silicon Carbide (SiC) DMOSFETs. With the SiC DMOSFET at 200kHz switching frequency, the measured maximum power conversion efficiency of the PFC boost front-end converter is 97.7%. The full OBC efficiency is 94.7%.

Keywords

DC-DC power convertors; MOSFET circuits; Schottky diodes; automotive electronics; battery chargers; battery powered vehicles; hybrid electric vehicles; power factor correction; silicon compounds; wide band gap semiconductors; zero voltage switching; DMOSFET; SJMOSFET; SiC; ZVS full bridge DC-DC converter; battery electric vehicles; efficiency 94.7 percent; efficiency 97.7 percent; frequency 200 kHz; high density isolated OBC; on-vehicle battery charger; plug-in hybrid vehicles; power 3.3 kW; semibridgeless front-end PFC boost converter; silicon carbide; switching power devices; Bridge circuits; MOSFET; Power conversion; Silicon; Silicon carbide; Vehicles; Zero voltage switching;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo (ITEC), 2014 IEEE

Conference_Location

Dearborn, MI

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITEC.2014.6861856

Filename

6861856