A study of volume versus frequency for soft switching IGBT converters

Author

Masserant, Brian J. ; Beans, E. William ; Stuart, Thomas A.

Author_Institution

Toledo Univ., OH, USA

Volume

31

Issue

1

fYear

1995

Firstpage

280

Lastpage

287

Abstract

Earlier references have described a new soft switched ZVS/ZCS (zero voltage switching, zero current switching) converter for IGBTs that allows operation above 20 kHz. Although frequencies above 20 kHz are now possible for IGBT converters, the optimum frequency for minimum volume may be below 20 kHz because of heat sink requirements. A comparative study considers the reactive component versus heat sink volume tradeoff for two 6 kW converters, one using ZVS/ZCS and the other using a more conventional circuit with hard switching.<>

Keywords

Schottky diodes; circuit analysis computing; heat sinks; power semiconductor diodes; power semiconductor switches; 20 kHz; heat sink; heat sink requirements; heat sink volume; inductor; input capacitor; optimum frequency; output capacitor; reactive component; soft switching IGBT converters; transformer; zero current switching; zero voltage switching; Circuits; Cooling; FETs; Frequency conversion; Heat sinks; Insulated gate bipolar transistors; Switching converters; Switching loss; Zero current switching; Zero voltage switching;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9251

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/7.366310

Filename

366310