Design and implementation of a driver board for a high power and high frequency IGBT inverter

Author

Schwarzer, Ulrich ; De Doncker, Rik W.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Power Electron. & Electr. Drives, RWTH Aachen, Germany

Volume

4

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

1907

Lastpage

1912

Abstract

In an industrial project a soft-switching high-frequency IGBT voltage source inverter (VSI) system to supply a resistive-inductive load was developed. The inverter which consists of only four fast high-power 1.2 kV/800 A IGBT modules, delivers an output power of more than 100 kW at a switching frequency above 100 kHz. This high-power high-frequency product is a major challenge for today´s power semiconductor modules. For this industrial application the driver boards had to be designed and implemented because no suitable gate drivers exist today on the market which fulfils the requirements to the control the high-power semiconductors at 100 kHz. In this paper the IGBT inverter system will be briefly presented. Next, the design and the hardware of the self-developed driver boards will be shown. Measurement results certify the successful implementation of the driver boards in the IGBT inverter system

Keywords

DC-DC power convertors; driver circuits; insulated gate bipolar transistors; invertors; load (electric); power supplies to apparatus; switching circuits; 1.2 kV; 100 kHz; 100 kW; 800 A; DC/DC converter; IGBT modules; VSI; driver board; gate drivers; high frequency IGBT inverter; high power inverter; output power; power semiconductor modules; resistive-inductive load supply; soft-switching high-frequency IGBT voltage source inverter; switching frequency; Insulated gate bipolar transistors; Inverters; MOSFETs; Modems; Power electronics; Power generation; Rectifiers; Switching frequency; Topology; Zero voltage switching;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics Specialists Conference, 2002. pesc 02. 2002 IEEE 33rd Annual

Conference_Location

Cairns, Qld.

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7262-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PSEC.2002.1023092

Filename

1023092