Effects of silicon carbide (SiC) power devices on HEV PWM inverter losses

Author

Ozpineci, Burak ; Tolbert, Leon M. ; Islam, Syed K. ; Hasanuzzaman, Md

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Tennessee Univ., Knoxville, TN, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

1061

Abstract

The emergence of silicon carbide (SiC) based power semiconductor switches with their superior features compared with silicon (Si) based switches has resulted in substantial improvements in the performance of power electronics converter systems. These systems with SiC power devices are more compact, lighter, and more efficient, so they are ideal for high-voltage power electronics applications, including hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) traction drives. In this paper, the effect of SiC-based power devices on HEV traction drive losses are investigated. Reductions in heat sink size and device losses with the increase in the efficiency will be analyzed using an averaging model of a three-phase PWM inverter (TPPWMI). For more accurate results, device physics is taken into consideration to find the loss equations for the controllable switches

Keywords

DC-AC power convertors; PWM invertors; electric vehicles; field effect transistor switches; heat sinks; losses; power MOSFET; power semiconductor switches; semiconductor device models; silicon compounds; PWM inverter losses; SiC; averaging model; device losses; heat sink size; hybrid electric vehicle traction drives; power electronics converter systems performance; power semiconductor switches; silicon carbide power devices; Automotive applications; Automotive engineering; Hybrid electric vehicles; Laboratories; Power electronics; Power semiconductor switches; Pulse width modulation inverters; Schottky diodes; Silicon carbide; Switching converters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics Society, 2001. IECON '01. The 27th Annual Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Denver, CO

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7108-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IECON.2001.975927

Filename

975927