• DocumentCode
    3679082
  • Title

    Experimental evaluation of SiC BJTs and SiC MOSFETs in a series-loaded resonant converter

  • Author

    Georg Tolstoy;Per Ranstad;Juan Colmenares;Florian Giezendanner;Hans-Peter Nee

  • Author_Institution
    KTH ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Teknikringen 33 Stockholm, Sweden
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    9
  • Abstract
    SiC devices such as MOSFETs and BJTs have proven themselves to be contenders to improve the efficiency of resonant converters. The losses of the full-bridge inverter are well below 1% of the rated power at switching frequencies up to 200 kHz, making it possible to reach even higher frequencies. An experimental setup is built and two different full-bridge inverters are tested. One is built with SiC MOSFETs and no additional anti-parallel diodes and one with SiC BJTs and SiC Schottky diodes.
  • Keywords
    "Silicon carbide","Snubbers","MOSFET","Zero voltage switching","Loss measurement","Resonant frequency","Frequency modulation"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Power Electronics and Applications (EPE´15 ECCE-Europe), 2015 17th European Conference on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EPE.2015.7309472
  • Filename
    7309472