Advanced SOI gate driver IC with integrated V<sub>CE</sub>-monitoring and negative turn-off gate voltage for medium power IGBT modules

Vogler, Bastian; Herzer, R.; Buetow, Sven; Mayya, Iyead; Becker, Susanne

doi:10.1109/ispsd.2014.6856040

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“…This may be due to the high cost of the devices and anticipation of the highcurrent switching devices yet to come on the market. An Intelligent Power Module has been developed to protect IGBTs from short circuit and to provide a negative voltage to avoid false switching signals, which reduces switching losses [44]. Furthermore, to obtain closed-loop gate control, a new technique has been proposed in [45].…”

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Medium-Voltage Drives: Challenges and existing technology

Abu‐Rub

Bayhan

Moinoddin

et al. 2016

IEEE Power Electron. Mag.

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T his article presents an overview of state-of-art solutions, advances, and design and research trends in medium-voltage (MV) drive technologies-and also discusses the challenges and requirements associated with the use of such drives. The choice and deployment of MV drives in industries are associated with numerous requirements related to the front-end converter (grid side) and inverter (machine side).The focus is on solutions that present high efficiency; low price, size, and weight; minimum harmonic distortion; reduction in dv/dt; mitigation of common-mode (CM) voltage; avoiding torsional vibration; transformerless solutions; fault detection capability; and condition monitoring.The ever-growing demand for electrical energy and the continuous rise in energy prices compel us to conclude that energy must be used more efficiently. Modern power electronics technology with high efficiency and appropriate control approaches is needed in energy-intensive industries to decrease the immense waste of energy and hand and chess pieces image ©istockphoto.com/Vasjakoman circuit image licensed by ingram publishing Challenges and the existing technology 30 IEEE PowEr ElEctronIcs MagazInE z June 2016improve power quality. Since electric motor drive systems are the major consumers of energy, they have the greatest potential for improvement in terms of efficient energy consumption. High-power motors, mostly operating in MV, are of most interest, due to their enormous energy consumption [1].MV drives have found extensive applications in several industries, such as in the oil and gas, petrochemical, mining, water/waste, pulp/paper, cement, chemical, power generation, metal production and processes, traction, and marine drives sectors. To improve power quality and system response and to reduce operation cost and energy loss, the installed MV drives should be adjustable-speed drives (ASDs).

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Medium-Voltage Drives: Challenges and existing technology

Abu‐Rub

Bayhan

Moinoddin

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IEEE Power Electron. Mag.

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“…Unfortunately, there are still two weaknesses of the conventional bipolar gate drive circuits. First, the conventional bipolar gate drive circuits [15,16] need two power supplies and it is difficult to implement in an integrated circuit, especially with the bulk-silicon technology [17]. Second, the overshoot voltage V OV of the IGBTs is deteriorated due to that the collector current rate dI CE /dt is increased rapidly, which is harmful for the devices and the system reliability [18][19][20][21][22].…”

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Bipolar gate drive integrated circuit for insulated gate bipolar transistor to achieve better tradeoff between the turn‐off losses and collector voltage overshoot

Zhu

Zhang

Sun

et al. 2016

IET Circuits, Devices & Systems

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A bipolar gate drive circuit considering the mitigation of the turn-off losses (E off) and the overshoot of the collector voltage (V OV) for the insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) is proposed with 600 V bulk-silicon bipolarcomplementary metal-oxide-semiconductor double-diffused metal-oxide-semiconductor technology. Feature of this study is that a differential output circuit and a self-adaptive turn-off gate resistance optimiser are used. By using the differential output circuit, only one power supply is needed to provide the bipolar gate control signal for the driven IGBT. With the proposed optimiser, the turn-off gate resistance can be self-adjusted according to the changing rate of the collector voltage (dV CE /dt) and collector current (dI CE /dt) during the turn-off process. Thus, the losses during the dV CE /dt p h a s ea n dt h ed I CE /dt phase can be designed independently. Due to that the V OV is only depended on the dI CE /dt, the authors can reduce the V OV by 52% without sacrificing the total turn-off losses E off and a better trade-off can be achieved by using the proposed drive circuit, compared with the conventional one. Numerous formula analysis, simulations and experiments are performed to verify the above electrical characteristics.

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Medium Voltage Drives – Challenges and Trends

Abu‐Rub

Bayhan

Moinoddin

et al. 2021

High Performance Control of AC Drives With MATLAB®/Simulink

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Advanced SOI gate driver IC with integrated V_CE-monitoring and negative turn-off gate voltage for medium power IGBT modules

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Medium-Voltage Drives: Challenges and existing technology

Medium-Voltage Drives: Challenges and existing technology

Bipolar gate drive integrated circuit for insulated gate bipolar transistor to achieve better tradeoff between the turn‐off losses and collector voltage overshoot

Medium Voltage Drives – Challenges and Trends

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Advanced SOI gate driver IC with integrated VCE-monitoring and negative turn-off gate voltage for medium power IGBT modules

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Bipolar gate drive integrated circuit for insulated gate bipolar transistor to achieve better tradeoff between the turn‐off losses and collector voltage overshoot

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