Electrothermal modeling and simulation with SIMPLORER

Author

Jakopovic, Zeljko ; Sunde, Viktor ; Bencic, Zvonko

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electr. Eng. & Comput., Zagreb Univ., Croatia

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

10-12 Dec. 2003

Firstpage

1141

Abstract

Modern circuit simulators for power electronics have implemented electrothermal models of power semiconductors in their libraries. For successful simulation, interaction between electrical behaviour and self-heating effects cannot be neglected. SIMPLORER simulator is between the first that have implemented electrothermal models of power semiconductors at device level. In this paper validation of SIMPLORER´s power MOSFET electrothermal model is performed. As a temperature sensor during measurement TEMPFET was used, resulting with good agreement of simulation and measurement results.

Keywords

circuit simulation; power MOSFET; power semiconductor devices; semiconductor device models; temperature sensors; circuit simulators; electrothermal modeling; electrothermal simulation; field effect transistor; metal oxide semiconductor FET; power MOSFET; power electronics; power semiconductors; selfheating effects; temperature sensor; Circuit simulation; Computational modeling; Design automation; Electrothermal effects; Libraries; MOSFET circuits; Power electronics; Power measurement; Power system modeling; Temperature;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Technology, 2003 IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7852-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIT.2003.1290824

Filename

1290824