• DocumentCode
    540928
  • Title

    SiC BJT driver applied to a 2 kW inverter: Performances and limitations

  • Author

    Tournier, Dominique ; Bevilacqua, Pascal ; Brosselard, Pierre ; Planson, Dominique ; Allard, Bruno

  • Author_Institution
    Lab. Ampere, Univ. de Lyon, Lyon, France
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    16-18 March 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    6
  • Abstract
    The control of a SiC bipolar transistor may look like the control of its Si counterpart, but not quite in fact. This paper presents a discrete base driver for a SiC bipolar transistor and validates its performances in ambient temperature while the SiC BJT is operated at high temperature. Performances and limitations of a 2 kW SiC-BJT based inverter are investigated.
  • Keywords
    bipolar transistors; invertors; silicon compounds; wide band gap semiconductors; BJT driver; SiC; ambient temperature; bipolar transistor; inverter; power 2 kW; Driver circuits; Inverters; JFETs; Silicon carbide; Switches; Temperature; Temperature sensors;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Integrated Power Electronics Systems (CIPS), 2010 6th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Nuremberg
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-61284-814-3
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5730640