Abstract:
This article proposes a gallium nitride (GaN)-based isolated silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFET gate driver with an on-chip metal–insulator–metal (MIM) capacitor that has high ...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
This article proposes a gallium nitride (GaN)-based isolated silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFET gate driver with an on-chip metal–insulator–metal (MIM) capacitor that has high data rate and low propagation delay. The improved common-mode transient immunity (CMTI) envelope detection technique eliminates the common-mode current ( I_{\mathrm {CM}} ) to improve the CMTI. In addition, the proposed isolated gate driver (IGD) with quad-drive control (QDC) technique reduces power loss and gate ringing effect. Experimental results show that the proposed IGD can achieve a slew rate of 109 kV/ \mu \text{s} . At a switching frequency of 100 kHz, the efficiency of the half-bridge isolated dc–dc converter can be kept higher than 90% when V_{\mathrm {IN}} changes from 800 to 1700 V, and the peak efficiency is 98.6% when V_{\mathrm {IN}} = 800 V.
Published in: IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits ( Volume: 59, Issue: 8, August 2024)