A simplified spice based IGBT model for power electronics modules evaluation

Author

Chimento, F. ; Mora, N. ; Bellini, M. ; Stevanovic, I. ; Tomarchio, S.

Author_Institution

ABB AB Corp. Res., Vasteras, Sweden

fYear

2011

fDate

7-10 Nov. 2011

Firstpage

1155

Lastpage

1160

Abstract

The paper deals with the evaluation of a suitable model for power IGBTs targeted for use in power electronic modules. The main issue for the developed model is the possibility of creating a circuital based structure starting from the device physical equations. The model is implemented in a circuital simulation environment with the aim of evaluating the performance of high voltage, high current modules. In those a key factor is the possibility of having computation times fitting with the necessity of parasitic elements estimation. The implementation of the model is described together with the validation of it by comparison with experimental results.

Keywords

SPICE; circuit simulation; insulated gate bipolar transistors; modules; power bipolar transistors; semiconductor device models; circuital simulation environment; current modules; device physical equations; parasitic element estimation; power IGBT model; power electronic module evaluation; simplified SPICE based IGBT model; Computational modeling; Equations; Insulated gate bipolar transistors; Integrated circuit modeling; Load modeling; Mathematical model; SPICE; IGBT model; lumped charge;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

IECON 2011 - 37th Annual Conference on IEEE Industrial Electronics Society

Conference_Location

Melbourne, VIC

ISSN

1553-572X

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-969-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IECON.2011.6119471

Filename

6119471