Title :
Electrothermal modeling and simulation with SIMPLORER
Author :
Jakopovic, Zeljko ; Sunde, Viktor ; Bencic, Zvonko
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Electr. Eng. & Comput., Zagreb Univ., Croatia
Abstract :
Modern circuit simulators for power electronics have implemented electrothermal models of power semiconductors in their libraries. For successful simulation, interaction between electrical behaviour and self-heating effects cannot be neglected. SIMPLORER simulator is between the first that have implemented electrothermal models of power semiconductors at device level. In this paper validation of SIMPLORER´s power MOSFET electrothermal model is performed. As a temperature sensor during measurement TEMPFET was used, resulting with good agreement of simulation and measurement results.
Keywords :
circuit simulation; power MOSFET; power semiconductor devices; semiconductor device models; temperature sensors; circuit simulators; electrothermal modeling; electrothermal simulation; field effect transistor; metal oxide semiconductor FET; power MOSFET; power electronics; power semiconductors; selfheating effects; temperature sensor; Circuit simulation; Computational modeling; Design automation; Electrothermal effects; Libraries; MOSFET circuits; Power electronics; Power measurement; Power system modeling; Temperature;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Technology, 2003 IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7852-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICIT.2003.1290824
