A 600V, 1KA compact LTD module using power MOSFETs

Author

Iyengar, Pravin ; Lim, T.C. ; Finney, Stephen J. ; Williams, Barry W. ; Sinclair, Mark A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

fYear

2012

fDate

3-7 June 2012

Firstpage

180

Lastpage

183

Abstract

MOSFETs and IGBTs currently have limited use in high current pulsed power applications due to their lower power density and the complexity involved in developing an array of these devices. This paper proposes a compact 600V, 1kA module using power MOSFETs with specifically designed MOSFET driver boards and 8 parallel MOSFETs. The proposed set up offers a higher power density using minimal components along with ultrafast repetitive switching. Experimental results demonstrate pulse widths of 100ns and switching times <; 10ns under single shot and burst mode operation.

Keywords

driver circuits; insulated gate bipolar transistors; modules; power MOSFET; pulsed power technology; transformers; IGBT; burst mode operation; compact LTD module; current 1 kA; high current pulsed power application; linear transformer driver; power MOSFET driver board; power density; single shot operation; time 100 ns; ultrafast repetitive switching; voltage 600 V; Inductive Voltage Adder (IVA); Linear Transformer Driver (LTD); Power MOSFET; pulse generation; pulsed power systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Modulator and High Voltage Conference (IPMHVC), 2012 IEEE International

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1222-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPMHVC.2012.6518708

Filename

6518708