TY - GEN
T1 - A three-level, T-type, power electronics building block using Si-SiC hybrid switch for high-speed drives
AU - Deshpande, Amol
AU - Chen, Yingzhuo
AU - Narayanasamy, Balaji
AU - Sathyanarayanan, Arvind S.
AU - Luo, Fang
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/4/18
Y1 - 2018/4/18
N2 - This paper presents the design and implementation of a 100 kW three-level T-type (3L-T2), single-phase power electronics building block (PEBB). The PEBB features switching power devices with associated gate drivers, DC-link capacitors and interconnection busbar. A hybrid switch (HyS), which includes a Si IGBT and a SiC MOSFET in parallel, forms the switching power device in the PEBB. An low-inductive multi-layer laminated busbar was designed to have symmetrical current commutation loops. A major contribution is that this is achieved while no three-level T-type power module was used. A loop inductance of 29 nH was achieved which is lower than the existing state-of-the-art three-level designs in literature. The fabricated prototype PEBB achieves a specific power density of 27.7 kW/kg and a volumetric power density of 308.61 W/in3. Single-phase operation of the PEBB has been demonstrated at the switching frequency of 28 kHz.
AB - This paper presents the design and implementation of a 100 kW three-level T-type (3L-T2), single-phase power electronics building block (PEBB). The PEBB features switching power devices with associated gate drivers, DC-link capacitors and interconnection busbar. A hybrid switch (HyS), which includes a Si IGBT and a SiC MOSFET in parallel, forms the switching power device in the PEBB. An low-inductive multi-layer laminated busbar was designed to have symmetrical current commutation loops. A major contribution is that this is achieved while no three-level T-type power module was used. A loop inductance of 29 nH was achieved which is lower than the existing state-of-the-art three-level designs in literature. The fabricated prototype PEBB achieves a specific power density of 27.7 kW/kg and a volumetric power density of 308.61 W/in3. Single-phase operation of the PEBB has been demonstrated at the switching frequency of 28 kHz.
KW - Hybrid switch
KW - Laminated busbar
KW - PEBB
KW - T-type
KW - Three-level
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85046968284
U2 - 10.1109/APEC.2018.8341385
DO - 10.1109/APEC.2018.8341385
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - Conference Proceedings - IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition - APEC
SP - 2609
EP - 2616
BT - APEC 2018 - 33rd Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 33rd Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, APEC 2018
Y2 - 4 March 2018 through 8 March 2018
ER -