Cascode GaN/SiC: A Wide-Bandgap Heterogenous Power Device for High-Frequency Applications

Wireless power transfer systems and plasma generators are among the increasing number of applications that use high-frequency power converters. Increasing switching frequency can reduce the energy storage requirements of the passive elements that can lead to higher power densities or even the elimin...

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Vydáno v:IEEE transactions on power electronics Ročník 35; číslo 6; s. 6340 - 6349
Hlavní autoři: Xu, Jiale, Gu, Lei, Ye, Zhechi, Kargarrazi, Saleh, Rivas-Davila, Juan Manuel
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: New York IEEE 01.06.2020
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Témata:
Circuits
Conduction losses
Electronic devices
Energy dissipation
Energy gap
Energy storage
Field effect transistors
Gallium nitride
Gallium nitride (GaN)
Gallium nitrides
HEMTs
High frequencies
High voltages
JFETs
Logic gates
Magnetic cores
Plasma generators
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power amplifiers
Power converters
Ratings
Semiconductor devices
Silicon carbide
silicon carbide (SiC)
Switches
Switching
Thermal conductivity
Wireless power transmission
ISSN:0885-8993, 1941-0107
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Shrnutí:Wireless power transfer systems and plasma generators are among the increasing number of applications that use high-frequency power converters. Increasing switching frequency can reduce the energy storage requirements of the passive elements that can lead to higher power densities or even the elimination of magnetic cores. However, operating at higher frequencies requires faster switching devices in packages with low parasitics. Wide-bandgap (WBG) power devices, such as gallium nitride (GaN) and silicon carbide (SiC) devices, have high-critical fields and high-thermal conductivity that make them good candidates for efficient high-voltage and high-frequency operations. Commercially available GaN and SiC devices have ratings targeting different applications. Lateral GaN devices dominate in lower voltage (<650 V) and high-frequency applications as they have relatively small device capacitances (<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">C_{\text{oss}},C_{\text{iss}}</tex-math></inline-formula>), which make them easy to drive at high frequencies. On the other hand, vertical SiC devices are often used in high-voltage and low-frequency applications since they have higher blocking voltages and larger gate charge than their GaN counterparts. As a result, SiC devices usually require high power and complicated gate drive circuitry. Recent work shows that in both GaN and SiC devices, losses in device <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">C_{\text{oss}}</tex-math></inline-formula> can exceed the conduction losses at high-switching frequencies and relatively high voltages under zero-voltage-switching conditions. Moreover, the <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">C_{\text{oss}}</tex-math></inline-formula> energy loss (<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">E_{\text{oss}}</tex-math></inline-formula>) per switching cycle increases with frequency in GaN devices but remains roughly independent of frequency in SiC devices. This means that at high frequencies, SiC devices can be preferable due to their smaller <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">C_{\text{oss}}</tex-math></inline-formula> energy loss even when taking into consideration the complexity of the gate drive circuit. In this article, we present a WBG high-voltage cascode GaN/SiC power device, combining the advantages of both a GaN and an SiC device-namely, simple gate drive requirements, <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">E_{\text{oss}}</tex-math></inline-formula> loss per cycle roughly independent of frequency, and relatively high-voltage blocking capability. Comparing this cascode GaN/SiC device with an SiC mosfet and a SiC junction gate field-effect transistor of similar voltage ratings and <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">R_{ds,{\text{ON}}}</tex-math></inline-formula>, we find that the inverter using the cascode GaN/SiC device has the highest efficiency and simplest auxiliary gate drive circuitry. Finally, integrating the cascode GaN/SiC device has the potential benefits of achieving lower <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">C_{\text{oss}}</tex-math></inline-formula> losses, higher device ratings, and better heat removal capability.
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ISSN:0885-8993
1941-0107
DOI:10.1109/TPEL.2019.2954322