Review and analysis of SiC MOSFETs' ruggedness and reliability

J Wang, X Jiang - IET Power Electronics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
SiC MOSFETs (silicon carbide metal‐oxide semiconductor field‐effect transistors) are
replacing Si insulated gate bipolar transistors in many power conversion applications due to …

Gate and base drivers for silicon carbide power transistors: An overview

D Peftitsis, J Rabkowski - IEEE Transactions on Power …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silicon carbide (SiC) power transistors have started gaining significant importance in various
application areas of power electronics. During the last decade, SiC power transistors were …

Review on SiC MOSFETs high-voltage device reliability focusing on threshold voltage instability

K Puschkarsky, T Grasser, T Aichinger… - … on Electron Devices, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An overview over issues and findings in SiC power MOSFET reliability is given. The focus of
this article is on threshold instabilities and the differences to Si power MOSFETs …

Temperature-dependent short-circuit capability of silicon carbide power MOSFETs

Z Wang, X Shi, LM Tolbert, F Wang… - … on Power Electronics, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a comprehensive short-circuit ruggedness evaluation and numerical
investigation of up-to-date commercial silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFETs. The short-circuit …

Short-circuit protection circuits for silicon-carbide power transistors

DP Sadik, J Colmenares, G Tolstoy… - IEEE transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An experimental analysis of the behavior under short-circuit conditions of three different
silicon-carbide (SiC) 1200-V power devices is presented. It is found that all devices take up …

SiC power MOSFETs performance, robustness and technology maturity

A Castellazzi, A Fayyaz, G Romano, L Yang… - Microelectronics …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Relatively recently, SiC power MOSFETs have transitioned from being a research
exercise to becoming an industrial reality. The potential benefits that can be drawn from this …

Accurate Temperature Estimation of SiC Power mosfets Under Extreme Operating Conditions

A Tsibizov, I Kovačević-Badstübner… - … on Power Electronics, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Electrothermal modeling of silicon carbide (SiC) power devices is frequently performed to
estimate the device temperature in operation, typically assuming a constant thermal …

Short-circuit evaluation and overcurrent protection for SiC power MOSFETs

AE Awwad, S Dieckerhoff - 2015 17th European Conference …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, the short-circuit (SC) performance of two different SiC MOSFETs is
experimentally investigated for different input voltages, biasing voltages and case …

Experimental and theoretical demonstration of temperature limitation for 4H-SiC MOSFET during unclamped inductive switching

J An, S Hu - IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article focuses on the avalanche energy handing ability and theoretical demonstration
of the avalanche failure mechanism for the SiC MOSFET by the unclamped inductive …

Investigations on the degradation of 1.2-kV 4H-SiC MOSFETs under repetitive short-circuit tests

X Zhou, H Su, Y Wang, R Yue, G Dai… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The long-term operational reliability of silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFETs needs to be further
verified before they could replace silicon counterparts in power applications. In this paper …