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In this paper, a plug-and-play ripple mitigation technique is proposed. It requires only the sensing of the DC-link voltage and can operate fully independently to remove the low-frequency voltage ripple. The proposed technique is nonintrusive to the existing hardware and enables hot-swap operation without disrupting the normal functionality of the existing power system. It is user-friendly, modular...
During standard robustness evaluations of a NPC type 2 IGBT power module a non-described effect in a Three Level NPC 2 topology was observed. A full description of that effect can help to protect IGBT power modules in this topology against blow ups and can help in a post mortem analysis to understand the reason for this. With a full understanding of that effect the lifetime of the inverter can be...
To efficiently power multi-core processors in today's computing devices, integrated voltage regulator (IVR) shows significant energy saving ability by dynamic voltage and frequency scaling. One key aspect in developing IVR is to design power inductors with small size and small loss at very high frequency. However, the challenge in very high frequency magnetic characterization is a major obstacle to...
This work describes in detail the design, fabrication and characterization of on-silicon coupled inductors. The coupled inductors are fabricated using a double metal layer process for improved performance. Further, the fabricated devices are characterized for small signal, dc bias and large signal testing at high frequencies (up to 15 MHz). The small signal testing includes both impedance analyzer...
Measuring the load current of drive inverters is still inevitable for a precise current control. In common industrial and automotive inverters hall effect based current sensors are widely used. [1] The presented novel current measurement method is based on an inductive current sensor like a Rogowski coil. This can be fabricated much smaller and cheaper than hall based current sensors and can be integrated...
Commercially available Silicon Carbide (SiC) MOSFET power modules often have a design based on existing packages previously used for silicon insulated-gate bipolar transistors. However, these packages are not optimized to take advantage of the SiC benefits, such as, high switching speeds and high-temperature operation. The package of a half-bridge SiC MOSFET module has been modeled and the parasitic...
In this paper, detailed static characterization of the new 650 V/ 30 A GaN device from GaN Systems is presented. The on-resistance and output capacitance of this device are considerably low making GaN a viable option for high switching frequency (in the range of MHz) medium power applications (> 3 kW). A comprehensive examination of device characteristics and variation of device parasitics depending...
This paper presents a three-phase transformerless uninterruptible power supply (UPS) with sinusoidal pulse width modulation (SPWM) based division-summation (D-Σ) digital control. A transformerless UPS controls the power flow between dc link and utility grid, as well as tracks the ac reference voltage. The proposed control law derived with D-Σ digital approach takes into account the effects of dc-link...
This paper presents a high accuracy and high bandwidth current sense circuit for digitally controlled DC-DC buck converters. The circuit uses lossless inductor DCR current sensing and a sigma delta modulator ADC to sense the average current in the inductor to high accuracy. These accurate but low bandwidth measurements are unsuitable for use in feedback control loops as their acquisition delay would...
In multiphase buck converters, phases are dynamically added or dropped based on the output load, to improve efficiency. This is typically achieved by programming a lookup table containing the range of threshold currents for each phase, independent of input voltage and switching frequency. In this work, an algorithm is proposed to recalibrate the threshold currents for operation at optimum number of...
This work presents a high-voltage GaN-based power HEMT with a highly-linear, monolithically-integrated temperature sensor. The principle is shown and compared to other concepts. The sensor is fabricated by using a interconnect metallization without additional process steps. The performance of the sensor as well as of the power device is characterized. The 600 V power device achieves an on-state resistance...
This paper presents an isolated power converter module for medium-voltage (2.4 kV), high-power-quality (PF ≥ 0.98, current THD ≤ 2%), 50 kW fast charger for plug-in electric vehicles. The proposed high-efficiency (above 96%), and reduced-footprint converter module utilizes off-the-shelf Silicon Carbide (SiC) devices to step down the rectified single-phase medium-voltage input. The developed module...
This paper presents the design, fabrication, and characterization of on silicon integrated micro-transformers for high frequency power applications. The microtransformer device is used and tested in DC-DC converter application at high switching frequency. This device has stable L vs. f characteristic up to 50 MHz. The design is improved regarding to the electrical resistance and current capability...
This paper presents a novel approach to compensate the voltage error due to switching dead times in voltage-fed inverters using a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) and current oversampling. The FPGA controls an analog-to-digital (AD) converter which operates at a high conversion rate and processes numerous current samples taken at equidistant time steps within each pulse width modulation (PWM)...
Low power conditioning systems are required for photovoltaic (PV) applications in portable devices, small satellites, solar vehicles, etc. The research and development of the power conditioning unit for this application such as MPPT requires of controllable environment conditions, which are difficult to obtain due to weather variability. Thus, a photovoltaic emulator is developed to obtain a power...
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