Publications related to H-bridge

A Dual-Channel Gate Driver Design with Active Voltage Balancing Circuit for Series Connection of SiC MOSFETs

Dual-channel gate driver is commonly utilized in the industry for accommodating the widespread use of half-bridge power modules. As wide-bandgap devices become increasingly prevalent due to their superior switching characteristics compared with conventiona ...

2024

Active Voltage Balancing with Seamless Integration into Dual Gate Driver for Series Connection of SiC MOSFETs

Drazen Dujic

The versatility of half-bridge configuration of silicon carbide (SiC) metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) power module contributes to its widespread adoption, highlighting the popularity and significance of its corresponding dual gat ...

2024

Phase Shift Angle Segmentation Modulation for Soft-Switching Medium-Voltage DAB Converter With Series-Connected SiC MOSFETs

Chengmin Li, Rui Lu, Heng Fang

The medium-voltage (MV) dual active bridge (DAB) converter with series-connected SiC (S-SiC) MOSFETs is a promising solution for high-power-density isolated dc/dc converter. To improve the voltage sharing and reliability of S-SiC, relatively large snubber ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Method for operating a power converter and power converter

Drazen Dujic, Jakub Kucka

The present invention relates to a method for operating a resonant power converter (1) having a primary stage (2) and a secondary stage (3) at least one of which is actively operated and includes a half-bridge or full-bridge inverter (21) having a pull-up ...

2023

Analysis and Design for Medium Voltage Dual Active Bridge Converter Based on Series-Connected SiC MOSFETs

Chengmin Li, Rui Lu, Heng Fang

In this article, a series-connected SiC MOSFETs-based medium voltage (MV) dual active bridge (DAB) converter featuring a lowvoltage difference amongdevices and high efficiency is proposed. In the developed DAB converter, the zero voltage switching-on chara ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2023

Ultra-high voltage, low power and energy recovering electronics for dielectric elastomer actuators

Raphaël Johannes Charles Mottet

Heart failure is a cardiovascular disease affecting between 1 and 2% of the population of developed countries alone - more than 10 million people - with this number bound to increase due to the ageing of the population. This condition starts to develop its ...

EPFL2022

High frequency IGCT operation for DC transformer

Gabriele Ulissi

In spite of the dominance of ac technology for the vast majority of power transmission and distribution since the late 19th century, the past decades have seen an increase in use of dc electrical power. In particular, this has been the case both in high vo ...

EPFL2022

An Analytical Model for the Prediction of the Maximum Output Voltage Reachable with an Ultra-high Voltage Flyback Converter Driving Capacitive Actuators

Yves Perriard, Alexis Boegli, Raphaël Johannes Charles Mottet

The DC-DC flyback converter is one of the most suitable topologies to generate the voltages necessary to operate Dielectric Elastomer Actuators. Voltages which can range from 5 to 20 kV. Previous works demonstrated through experiments the flyback’s ability ...

IEEE2021

Medium Voltage Impedance and Admittance Measurement and System Identification Techniques

Marko Petkovic

The recent trend of an increasing share of renewable energy sources in modern power systems, as well as the integration of power electronics equipment, is shaping the requirements for stable grid infrastructure. These requirements mainly come from the stab ...

EPFL2021

Schmitt trigger-based control strategy for the discharge phase of an ultra-high-voltage bidirectional flyback

Yves Perriard, Alexis Boegli, Raphaël Johannes Charles Mottet

The control strategy to discharge a capacitive load such as a dielectric elastomer actuator charged to several kilo-volts is critical to obtain a safe and reliable actuation. In the case of this publication, an ultra-high voltage bidirectional flyback conv ...

IEEE2021

Hard-Switching Losses in Power FETs: The Role of Output Capacitance

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Armin Jafari, Palliyage Srilak Nirmana Perera, Reza Soleiman Zadeh Ardebili

For certain field-effect transistors (FETs) in soft-switching operation, the large-signal behavior of their output capacitance ( Co ) has shown to deviate considerably from the datasheet values. This can have a significant effect on hard-switching losses i ...

2021

Enhanced-DAB Converter: Comprehensive Design Evaluation

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Armin Jafari, Mohammad Samizadeh Nikooytabalvandani, Furkan Karakaya

Soft switching in dual-active-bridge (DAB) converters enables their efficient operation at high frequencies, where the reduction in the size of magnetic components could result in ultra-high power densities. Nonetheless, losing soft-switching at high frequ ...

IEEE2021

Ultra High Voltage Switch for Bidirectional DC-DC Converter Driving Dielectric Elastomer Actuator

Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Morgan Almanza, Lucas Pniak

Specific applications, such as dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) or electroactive polymers, require to switch voltage levels exceeding the ratings of existing semiconductor devices. In low power application, reversible flyback are widely used to supply ...

2020

MMC-based conversion for MVDC applications

Stefan Milovanovic

In recent years, DC grids have gained momentum due to the advantages they display over their AC counterparts. For instance, high voltage DC grids have been established as the most prominent solution in the underwater power transmission or interconnection o ...

EPFL2020

Embedded Microchannel Cooling for High Power-Density GaN-on-Si Power Integrated Circuits

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Remco Franciscus Peter van Erp, Luca Nela, Georgios Kampitsis, Reza Soleiman Zadeh Ardebili

In this work, we demonstrate a new thermal management approach for direct cooling of GaN-on-Si power integrated circuits (ICs), in which the Si substrate functions as a microfluidic heat sink, turning Si into a cost-effective, high thermal performance subs ...

IEEE2020

97.4%-Efficient All-GaN Dual-Active-Bridge Converter with High Step-up High-Frequency Matrix Transformer

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Armin Jafari, Palliyage Srilak Nirmana Perera, Mohammad Samizadeh Nikooytabalvandani

In this work, we demonstrate a state-of-the-art high step-up/down dual-active-bridge (DAB) converter designed with GaN transistors, to achieve a high efficiency and large power-density. A quasi-planar matrix transformer with high step-up/down ratio is demo ...

2020

Analysis of the Effectiveness of the Series Inductor Integration Into the MFT for SST Applications

Drazen Dujic, Marko Mogorovic

This paper analyzes the effectiveness of the integration of the series inductor into the medium frequency transformer used for series resonant or dual active bridge converters - galvanically isolated DC-DC converters for high-power medium-voltage (solid st ...

2020

On Power Scalability of Modular Multilevel Converters: Increasing Current Ratings Through Branch Paralleling

Drazen Dujic, Stefan Milovanovic

The modular multilevel converter (MMC) presented in Figure 1 found its place within highvoltage and medium-voltage (MV) applications owing to the possibility of effortlessly meeting the imposed voltage requirements by stacking the so-called submodules (SMs ...

2020

IGCT Based Solid State Resonant Conversion

Dragan Stamenkovic

Driven by the environmental changes, penetration of renewables and the need for more flexible power grid, DC is reemerging as a basis for future power networks. Already established in the area of HVDC for very long distance transmission, more and more atte ...

EPFL2020

Modulation Considerations for Modular Multilevel Converter Operating with Parallel Branches and Phase-Shifted Carriers

Drazen Dujic, Stefan Milovanovic

The branch paralleling represents one of the available options with regards to the modular multilevel converter power extension. In such a case, the main technical challenge resides in the control domain, whereas a new set of possibilities from the voltage ...

IEEE2020