Single Power-Conversion Active-Clamped AC/DC Converter Employing Si/SiC Hybrid Switch

This article proposes a single power-conversion voltage-fed active-clamped ac/dc converter that uses an Si IGBT/SiC MOSFET hybrid switch. By incorporating two switches at the primary side of the circuit, we removed the full-bridge diode rectifier, and thereby reduced the required number of power dev...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on industrial electronics (1982) 2024-02, Vol.71 (2), p.1616-1630
Main Authors: Bai, Changkyu, Kim, Minsung
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
AC-DC converters
AC-DC power converters
Capacitors
Circuits
Clamping
Diode rectifiers
Electric potential
Energy conversion
Insulated gate bipolar transistors
Modulation
MOSFET
MOSFETs
Number of devices
Power transfer
series-resonant converter
Si IGBT/SiC MOSFET hybrid switches
Silicon
Silicon carbide
single power-conversion structure
Switches
Switching
switching modulation
Voltage
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Summary:This article proposes a single power-conversion voltage-fed active-clamped ac/dc converter that uses an Si IGBT/SiC MOSFET hybrid switch. By incorporating two switches at the primary side of the circuit, we removed the full-bridge diode rectifier, and thereby reduced the required number of power devices. Inherent bidirectional active-clamp circuit naturally limits the voltage spike at bottom switches and reuses the energy accumulated in the leakage inductor during both positive and negative grid half cycles. Also, it offers dual-resonant power transfer paths, so it can deliver the high power with less circuit components. The alternating switching modulation makes one of the bottom switches turn- off with hard switching per grid half cycle while holding other bottom switch on to conduct the current. In contrast, top switches are softly switched with low root-mean-square current. Therefore, the converter with proposed switching modulation enables direct substitution of Si IGBT for an SiC MOSFET at the top on the primary side, and thereby which cuts down the circuit implementation cost. We built a 1-kW prototype converter and confirmed its validity.
ISSN:0278-0046
1557-9948
DOI:10.1109/TIE.2023.3262889