Driving and Characterization of wide bandgap semiconductors for voltage source converter applications

No power conversion without power semiconductors Power semiconductors is NOTHING without a gate driver! The gate driver will properly drive a power semiconductor and bring the maximum performance. For WBG devices, Driving capability of gate driver IC (rise/fall time, pull-up/pull-down resistance) & CM transient immunity of gate driver isolation are special requirements. The gate driver will protect a power semiconductor and entire converter if something goes wrong. For WBG devices, Cross-talk is easily induced, leading to potential hazard of shoot-through failure and gate terminal reliability issues. A gate assist circuit was introduced for cross-talk suppression. Short circuit capability is limited. The desaturation protection circuit with <; 200 ns response time was described for device reliability enhancement.