TY - GEN
T1 - Impacts of ripple current to the loading and lifetime of power semiconductor device
AU - Ma, Ke
AU - Choi, Ui Min
AU - Blaabjerg, Frede
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/5/17
Y1 - 2017/5/17
N2 - The thermal loading of power electronics devices is determined by many factors and has being a crucial design consideration because it is closely related to the reliability and cost of the converter system. In this paper the impacts of the ripple current to the loss and thermal loading, as well as reliability performances of power devices are comprehensively investigated and tested. It is concluded that the amplitude of ripple current may modify the loss and thermal loading of the power devices, especially under the conditions of converter with low power output, and thus the lifetime of devices could be disturbed.
AB - The thermal loading of power electronics devices is determined by many factors and has being a crucial design consideration because it is closely related to the reliability and cost of the converter system. In this paper the impacts of the ripple current to the loss and thermal loading, as well as reliability performances of power devices are comprehensively investigated and tested. It is concluded that the amplitude of ripple current may modify the loss and thermal loading of the power devices, especially under the conditions of converter with low power output, and thus the lifetime of devices could be disturbed.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85020051170&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/APEC.2017.7931021
DO - 10.1109/APEC.2017.7931021
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85020051170
T3 - Conference Proceedings - IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition - APEC
SP - 2305
EP - 2311
BT - 2017 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, APEC 2017
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 32nd Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, APEC 2017
Y2 - 26 March 2017 through 30 March 2017
ER -