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Investigating the Shielding Effect of Pulse Transformer Operation in Isolated Gate Drivers for SiC MOSFETs

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  • Loreine Makki

    (Department of Electrical Engineering, Université de Nantes, IETR, Site de la Chantrerie, 44306 Nantes, France)

  • Marc Anthony Mannah

    (Department of Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering, The International University of Beirut BIU, Beirut, Lebanon/Lebanese International University LIU, Bekaa, Lebanon)

  • Christophe Batard

    (Department of Electrical Engineering, Université de Nantes, IETR, Site de la Chantrerie, 44306 Nantes, France)

  • Nicolas Ginot

    (Department of Electrical Engineering, Université de Nantes, IETR, Site de la Chantrerie, 44306 Nantes, France)

  • Julien Weckbrodt

    (Department of Electrical Engineering, Université de Nantes, IETR, Site de la Chantrerie, 44306 Nantes, France)

Abstract

Wide-bandgap technology evolution compels the advancement of efficient pulse-width gate-driver devices. Integrated enhanced gate-driver planar transformers are a source of electromagnetic disturbances due to inter-winding capacitances, which serve as a route to common-mode (CM) currents. This paper will simulate, via ANSYS Q3D Extractor, the unforeseen parasitic effects of a pulse planar transformer integrated in a SiC MOSFET gate-driver card. Moreover, the pulse transformer will be ameliorated by adding distinctive shielding layers aiming to suppress CM noise effects and endure high dv/dt occurrences intending to validate experimental tests. The correlation between stray capacitance and dv/dt immunity results after shielding insertion will be reported.

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  • Loreine Makki & Marc Anthony Mannah & Christophe Batard & Nicolas Ginot & Julien Weckbrodt, 2021. "Investigating the Shielding Effect of Pulse Transformer Operation in Isolated Gate Drivers for SiC MOSFETs," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(13), pages 1-16, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:14:y:2021:i:13:p:3866-:d:583326
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