Design Aspects for Achieving High Bandwidth Series and Parallel Multicell Converters

Mendes, Victor F.; Rezende, Guilherme M.; Ferreira, Tadeu Sartini; Silva, João Lucas da; Regnier, Jérémi; Meynard, Thierry

doi:10.1109/tpel.2021.3136481

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“…Multilevel systems essentially require several modulators that operate with phase-shifted carriers, whereby accurate phaseshifts are needed to ensure the beneficial cancellation of harmonics discussed above. As discussed, e.g., in [163], analog PWM modulation ("naturally sampled PWM") can achieve better performance in terms of bandwidth than regularly sampled PWM (i.e., single-or double-update mode, which introduces relatively long delays in the control loop; note that this can be improved by advanced multirate modulator techniques for parallel-or series-interleaved converters such as described in [164], [165]). However, in case of analog implementations, component tolerances and temperature dependencies of their characteristics lead to difficulties in maintaining accurate carrier phase-shifts.…”

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Ultra-High-Bandwidth Power Amplifiers: A Technology Overview and Future Prospects

Bohler¹,

Huber²,

Wurz³

et al. 2022

IEEE Access

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Testing of power electronic converters can advantageously be carried out in power-hardwarein-the-loop (P-HIL) environments that emulate the behavior of power grids, electric motors, etc. The interface between the model and the device under test requires a power amplifier whose bandwidth ultimately limits the accuracy of the emulation. Hence, there is a need for general-purpose AC power amplifiers with ultra-high power bandwidth. This paper first provides a comprehensive review of amplifier concepts proposed over the past decades, i.e., linear power amplifiers, switch-mode amplifiers, including advanced variants such as multilevel (parallel-interleaving) and multicell (series-interleaving) topologies, as well as hybrid approaches that, e.g., combine analog and switch-mode stages. Based on this review, the two key concepts (parallelinterleaving of bridge-legs and cascading of converter cells) that facilitate high efficiency and ultra-high power bandwidth are identified and discussed, covering also suitable isolated mains interfaces and control considerations. Finally, we present a three-phase amplifier system that uses six cascaded converter cells per phase to realize an effective switching frequency of 3.6 MHz. The prototype thus achieves a measured power bandwidth of 100 kHz at the nominal phase output voltage of 230 V rms, and an output power of up to 10 kW per phase.INDEX TERMS Power-hardware-in-the-loop (P-HIL), grid emulation, motor emulation, power amplifier topologies, switch-mode power amplifier, ultra-high-bandwidth power amplifier.

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