• DocumentCode
    3679813
  • Title

    Switching frequency modulation for GaN-based power converters

  • Author

    B. Weiss;R. Reiner;R. Quay;P. Waltereit;F. Benkhelifa;M. Mikulla;M. Schlechtweg;O. Ambacher

  • Author_Institution
    Fraunhofer Institute of Applied Solid State Physics Freiburg, Germany
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    4361
  • Lastpage
    4366
  • Abstract
    The effects on the EMI spectrum for various switching frequency modulation (SFM) scenarios in a high frequency boost converter are investigated in this paper. A GaN-device and a Si-device are compared with respect to their EMI behavior, which results from different gate charges and therefore different voltage gradients dv/dt on the power lines. First, the dynamic characteristics of the GaN-HEMT are demonstrated in detail. Then the behavior in the time domain and the frequency domain for switching operations at 300 kHz with various frequency modulation settings and an output power of 250 W are presented.
  • Keywords
    "Frequency modulation","Switches","Gallium nitride","Frequency measurement","Silicon","Electromagnetic interference"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), 2015 IEEE
  • ISSN
    2329-3721
  • Electronic_ISBN
    2329-3748
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECCE.2015.7310276
  • Filename
    7310276