Recently, SiC power devices were developed to reduce the size and weight of the power converter circuit. This paper presents a three-phase inverter structure for reducing imbalances in the switching loss among power modules connected parallel to one another and among the three phases. A proposed double-sided structure achieved an imbalance of less than 2% in the experimental switching loss using SiC power modules. In addition, it is shown that the double-sided structure realized stable switching behavior under four SiC power modules connected in parallel.
K E Y W O R D Sparallel connection, silicon carbide, stray inductance, switching loss Electr Eng Jpn. 2020;212:59-66.