• DocumentCode
    3710838
  • Title

    High voltage freewheeling diodes in an extended capability LED driving application

  • Author

    Gheorghe Pristavu;Anca Vasilica;Vlad Anghel;Razvan Pascu;Gheorghe Brezeanu;Florin Draghici

  • Author_Institution
    University ?Politehnica? of Bucharest, Romania
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    175
  • Lastpage
    178
  • Abstract
    The use of high power freewheeling diodes - Silicon Carbide Schottky and PiN rectifiers - in buck converter-based LED drivers is investigated. Applications biasing up to 60 LEDs at input voltages reaching 250V are developed for both diode types. Despite different switching behavior and dissipated power between freewheeling devices, experimental results show a significant converter driving capability extension and an efficiency of over 95% in all cases.
  • Keywords
    "Light emitting diodes","Schottky diodes","Switches","Silicon carbide","PIN photodiodes","Rectifiers"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Semiconductor Conference (CAS), 2015 International
  • ISSN
    1545-827X
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-8862-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SMICND.2015.7355199
  • Filename
    7355199