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Analytical model for predicting the junction temperature of chips considering the internal electrothermal coupling inside SiC metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor modules

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posted on 2020-03-19, 11:05 authored by Peng Sun, Zhibin Zhao, Yumeng Cai, Junji Ke, Xiang Cui, Bing Ji
Owing to their excellent characteristics, silicon carbide (SiC) metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor modules are expected to have broad application prospects in various types of power conversion equipment in the future. Accurate prediction of the internal chip junction temperature of SiC module is of great value for the usage of the modules in the power conversion equipment. In this study, taking the electrothermal coupling process, and the thermal characteristics of the chips into consideration, the power loss model under unipolar and bipolar sinusoidal pulse-width modulation control was developed. A star-shaped equivalent thermal network model based on virtual temperature was established. Moreover, an analytical junction temperature predicting model was proposed. To obtain the temperature dependence of static and dynamic parameters for the models, power device analyser was used, and the double pulse test bench was established. To validate the effectiveness and accuracy of the above models, the finite element method was used to calculate the junction temperature of a commercial 1200 V/300 A full SiC module under different working conditions. The results show that the relative error is very small and the proposed model is effective

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Citation

IET Power Electronics, 2020, 13(3), pp. 436 – 444

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Published in

IET POWER ELECTRONICS

Volume

13

Issue

3

Pagination

436 - 444 (9)

Publisher

INST ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY-IET

issn

1755-4535

eissn

1755-4543

Acceptance date

2019-10-10

Copyright date

2020

Available date

2019-10-11

Publisher version

https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/journals/10.1049/iet-pel.2019.0588

Language

English