Drain current injection circuitry for enabling the use of super-junction MOSFETs in a 5kW bidirectional DC-DC converter

Andrew Hopkins; N. McNeill; Phil Mellor

doi:10.1049/cp.2016.0277

Drain current injection circuitry for enabling the use of super-junction MOSFETs in a 5kW bidirectional DC-DC converter

Andrew Hopkins, N. McNeill, Phil Mellor

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The paper assesses the potential of employing super-junction MOSFETs in a high efficiency and low cost bidirectional DCDC converter for application in electric vehicle systems. Super-junction MOSFETs have a very low conduction loss, however, their poor intrinsic diode recovery behaviour and high output capacitances means that switching losses can be high in voltage source converters. A drain current injection technique is presented that can be used to mitigate the poor switching characteristics and thus realise excellent power conversion efficiencies. Experimental results are given for a circuit operating at 400V, 5kW and 25kHz and the means of achieving a power conversion efficiency >99% is outlined.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 8th IET International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD 2016)
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1049/cp.2016.0277
Publication status	Published - 10 Nov 2016

Keywords

Intrinsic diode deactivation
Drain current injection
Efficiency
Super junction
MOSFET

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Proceedings of the 8th IET International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD 2016). 2016.

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