Active and Passive Electronic Components
Volume 2018 (2018), Article ID 4198594, 9 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/4198594

Research Article

Design and Implementation of a Modular Bidirectional Switch Using SiC-MOSFET for Power Converter Applications

Edgar Maqueda,¹ Jorge Rodas,¹ Sergio Toledo,² Raúl Gregor,¹ David Caballero,¹ Federico Gavilan,¹ and Marco Rivera²

¹Laboratory of Power and Control Systems, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Luque, Paraguay
²Laboratory of Energy Conversion and Power Electronics, Universidad de Talca, Curicó, Chile

Correspondence should be addressed to Edgar Maqueda; emaqueda@ing.una.py

Received 31 May 2018; Revised 10 September 2018; Accepted 17 September 2018; Published 8 October 2018

Academic Editor: Michele Riccio

Copyright © 2018 Edgar Maqueda et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract.

The bidirectional switch (Bi-Sw) is a power device widely used by power conversion systems. This paper presents a novel modular design of a Bi-Sw with the purpose of providing to beginner researchers the key issues to design a power converter. The Bi-Sw has been designed in modular form using the SiC-MOSFET device. The Bi-Sw uses the advantages of SiC-MOSFET to operate at high switching frequencies. The verification of the module is carried out experimentally by means of the implementation in a voltage regulating converter, where performance analysis, power losses, and temperature dissipation are performed.

1. Introduction

The bidirectional switches (Bi-Sws), also known as four-quadrant switches, can block positive or negative voltages as well as drive currents in any direction [1, 2]. At present, their cost is high, since they are manufactured to measure depending on the application. The use of Bi-Sws is mainly demanded by power converters. Power converters using Bi-Sw include alternating voltage regulators, voltage source inverters (VSI) [3], converters with back-to-back power storage units [4], and multiples topologies of direct and indirect matrix converters found in the literature [5–8], topics that are of great interest to researchers today. Depending on the aforementioned applications, the Bi-Sws are demanded in different quantities and electrical characteristics. Therefore, a modular Bi-Sw that meets certain electrical and elementary criteria would lead to a contribution of value aimed at researchers who wish to carry out an experimental implementation in power converters.

The Bi-Sw is formed by two main components which are the power semiconductor and the power semiconductor gate driver [9]. Semiconductors used to construct the power circuit in applications such as matrix converters include MOSFETs for low power and high switching frequency applications, semiconductors such as the gate deflection thyristor (GTO), the switching thyristor (IGCT), and MOS deviation thyristor (MTO) for higher power applications but with switching frequency limitations [10]. Nowadays the most used semiconductors in power converters are IGBTs, silicon Si-MOSFET, and silicon carbide SiC-MOSFETs [11–14], where the semiconductor with SiC technology takes advantage in relation to other technologies as Si-IGBT and RB-IGBTs in reference to power losses, dissipated temperature, and switching frequency operating high power and high switching frequencies [15, 16]. The controllers of the power semiconductor gates are found in research papers formed by push-pull circuits coupled with a previous stage of isolation by means of optocouplers. These circuits present the least cost whereas they need several active components, as transistors, to amplify the control signal generally of about 3 V–5 V to 15 V–20 V [17], and composite gate chips (ICs) of MOSFETs and IGBTs with dual outputs, overcurrent detection, and separation between feeds that can be logic, optical, through optocouplers and capacitive type [18]. The advantage of these ICs is that they reduce the physical size of the active components of the circuit in a single chip because the control functions of the power semiconductors are standard. To improve performance of power converters, it is very important to use Bi-Sw with characteristics that approximate the ideals, which is why technological advances in power semiconductors and gate controllers favor the construction of better power switches, since these are the main components that compose them [19]. The main characteristics that must be possessed by the Bi-Sws applied to the power converters are (i) switching at high frequencies and voltage, (ii) high temperature handling, and (iii) lower power losses.

The modularity of the Bi-Sw circuit would facilitate the implementation of power converters, since it points to its use from simple power converters that require a smaller number of switches, such as the case of the voltage regulating converter, to matrix converter of quantities of phases, which demand the greater amount of Bi-Sw depending on the number of input or output phases. However, it is anticipated that, unlike custom designs of the Bi-Sw built in a single unit or electronic board for the power converters, the modules of the Bi-Sw for the interconnections between each other require the use of multiple connectors and cabling, raising the cost of implementation and also favoring generations of parasitic currents and driving losses due to driver impedances.

This paper presents the design and implementation issues of a modular Bi-Sw using SiC-MOSFETs with the purpose of providing a practical alternative with attractive technical characteristics for the implementation of a power converter, providing the key points for its constructive design. Similar investigations have carried out studies of semiconductor SiC-MOSFET application in the matrix converter [20, 21]. These works have designed the Bi-Sws according to their applications, and without focusing on the description of their design. The contribution of this article is the design of the Bi-Sw in a modular form explaining in detail the issues to its design and construction unlike with the articles previously cited, standardizing its use in power converters. Finally, an alternating voltage regulator is implemented experimentally to analyze its performance under frequency and power variations.

The organization of the paper is as follows. Section 2 describes Bi-Sw topology and design. In Section 3 the Bi-Sw is implemented in an ac voltage regulator in order to validate its operation in power converters. Then, in Section 4 the description for the performance evaluation of Bi-Sw by analyzing the conduction losses and switching SiC-MOSFET is performed, and finally, the conclusions are summarized in Section 5.

2. Bi-Sw Topology and Design

The Bi-Sws are four-quadrant switches that can block voltages and positive and negative drive currents in any direction. Currently there are several commercial Bi-Sws designed for matrix converters. Some of them are made with two quadrants IGBT, MOSFET and the SiC-MOSFET [15], and are configured as follows:

(1)Diode bridge with an IGBT arrangement, Figure 1(a).(2)Anti-paralleled reverse blocking IGBTs (RB-IGBT) arrangement, Figure 1(b).(3)Common emitter (CE) anti-paralleled IGBT arrangement, Figure 1(c).(4)Common collector (CC) anti-paralleled IGBT arrangement, Figure 1(d).

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Figure 1: Topologies of the Bi-Sw (a) diode bridge with an IGBT arrangement, (b) anti-paralleled reverse blocking IGBTs (RB-IGBT) arrangement, (c) common emitter (CE) anti-paralleled IGBT arrangement, and (d) common collector (CC) anti-paralleled IGBT arrangement.

The Bi-Sws formed by arrays of transistors on CE and CC are commonly used by power converters allowing control of current direction and also these arrangements have lower losses in conduction compared with the Bi-Sw with diodes bridge and the IGBT devices with reverse blocking [10].

The Bi-Sw is divided into two modules, a buffer and a power module. The buffer performs signal conditioning for levels of voltage and currents that require power device for proper operation and isolation of the electrical noise. The power module is formed by the SiC-MOSFET to perform the switching of the input ac voltage. Figure 2 shows the block diagram of the Bi-Sw formed by a pulse width modulation (PWM) generator and the modules.

Figure 2: Block diagram of the Bi-Sw operation.

2.1. Buffer Description

The switching devices require a drive signal for their ON and OFF states. In most applications, the drive signal is generated by a PWM, developed by control algorithms in microcontrollers, digital signal processor (DSP), or field programmable gate array (FPGA) [22]. The buffer circuit must have the following characteristics:

(1)Use of control driver device whose output electrical characteristics such as voltage, current, and bandwidth are suitable for driving the power device.(2)Electrical insulation of the feeds (VCC) and ground (GND) of the power device to prevent the spread of electrical noise generated by the power devices.

Taking into account the previously mentioned criteria, a comparison was made between ICs manufactured for the control of power semiconductors, in order to determine the ICs with better electrical characteristics for this application.

The ICs selected in this comparison were ISO 5500 from Texas Instruments [23] and IR 2113 [24] from International Rectifier. Table 1 shows the main characteristics of these ICs. As a result of this comparison, we have chosen to use the ISO 5500 IC because of the ability to control power semiconductors with load current range = 150 A and voltage blocking of 1200 V where the SiC-MOSFET to be used in the power circuit needs a controller of these characteristics.

Table 1: Electrics characteristics of ISO 5500 and IR 2113.

Parameter and unit
Symbol
ISO 5500
IR 2110

Output current (A)

Current load (A)

Voltage blocking (V)

Propagation delay (ns)

Isolated
 −
Capacitive
Logic

Protection (over-current)
 −
Yes
No

Protection (under-voltage)
 −
Yes
Yes

When used in conjunction with isolated power supplies, the device blocks high voltage, isolates ground, and prevents noise currents from entering the local ground and interfering with or damaging sensitive circuitry.

It is considered very important in the design to have an electrical separation by means of a physical distance between the control circuit generally formed by the DSP and the FPGA in charge of the switching techniques and the power circuit formed by the Bi-Sw in order to avoid the parasitic currents induced by switching from large powers to very high frequencies. For this reason, we have opted for the integration to the design, of an isolation by means of an optical fiber, which meets this need. The fiber optic kit composed by the family transmitters and receivers HFBR-0500Z was used because of its availability and accessible cost in the market, Figure 3(a).

Figure 3: Electric diagram of Bi-Sw, (a) buffer circuit and (b) power module circuit.

2.2. Power Module Description

The power module consists of power semiconductors devices. In this case, SiC-MOSFETs forming the Bi-Sw are shown in Figure 3(b), and they are responsible for switching the input voltage. Power transistors are unidirectional devices and then it is necessary to use two transistors to achieve the bidirectional switching. The polarization resistors are specified in Table 2.

Table 2: Parameters of the Bi-Sw experimental setup.

Parameter

(mH)

(F)
,  
(Ω)

(kΩ)

(μH)

Value
20
2.5
10
4.7
10
220

The power module was implemented with an N channel SiC-MOSFET (SCH2080KE) co-packaged with SiC Schottky diode of Rohm Semiconductor. The buffer and power module PCBs were designed in separate forms for the purpose of quick and easy replacement in case of failure of any component of the circuit; it also has benefits to set up a circuit more compact reducing the linear dimension of the PCB. Figure 4 shows the electronic boards (PCB) of Bi-Sw and the integration of both PCB modules.

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(b)

Figure 4: Images of the Bi-Sw PCB board. (a) Electronic boards for the Bi-Sw, buffer and power module. (b) Final disposition of the Bi-Sw board.

3. Implementation of the Bi-Sw in the ac Voltage Regulator

To validate the correct operation of the Bi-Sw designed with SiC-MOSFETs, an ac voltage regulator has been experimentally implemented. The ac voltage regulators are energy converters that control the power delivered to a given load. In general, the power is controlled by controlling the effective value of the voltage supplied to the load, that is, by varying the duty cycle of the PWM signal.

For this particular study, an ac voltage regulator was constructed using the Bi-Sw module whose circuit final disposition is shown in Figure 4(b). Equation (1) describes the mathematical expression for calculating the output voltage , where is the input voltage and is the PWM duty cycle in percentage (%):

The electrical circuit diagram of the ac voltage regulator (test circuit) is shown in Figure 5(a), where the source ac voltage was 220 V; the load , was a group of 100 W light bulbs connected in parallel, where their impedance values are in Table 2. is the power supply of the input circuit of the ISO 5500 equal to 3.3 V, and and are the power supply of the output circuit of it equal to 15 V. Switching the Bi-Sw generates electrical noise at the input voltage of the grid, which must be avoided. For this purpose low-pass filters are generally used [25, 26]. The cutoff frequency of the filter was 200 Hz lower than the switching frequency. Table 2 shows the parameters of the circuit components.

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Figure 5: Electrical diagram of the ac voltage regulator and the experimental setup. (a) Electrical diagram of the prototype of ac voltage regulator (test circuit). (b) Experimental setup of the ac voltage regulator.

3.1. Input Filter Evaluation

The switches of the Bi-Sw produce high interference in the input voltage of the voltage regulator converter. To prevent these disturbances in the input voltage, an LC-type filter is integrated into the circuit as shown in Figure 5(a). Experimental results are presented in terms of the total harmonic distortion (THD) of the input voltage without the input filter and with the input filter applied to the circuit at different switching frequencies. Figure 6 shows the obtained results in terms of the THD of the input voltage, where it is observed that the interferences by the switches of the Bi-Sw are attenuated in the order of 0.77%.

Figure 6: Analysis of the THD measured in without filter in the input and with filter in the input.

4. Evaluation of Power Losses

The Bi-Sw performs energy conversion directly through the power transistors. These devices have energy losses, which are generated in the states of switching and conduction of the transistor [27, 28]. The manufacturer usually provides these data, but the operating points of these measurements differ from the operating points of each specific application; this analysis is recommended to make for this application.

4.1. Switching Losses

Switching losses are originated in the changes of ON-states and OFF-states of the power device. Figure 7 shows the experimental current , drain voltage , and gate voltage of the SiC-MOSFET at a PWM switching frequency () equal to 100 kHz measured by a digital oscilloscope. Energy losses and are given by (2) and (3) where and are the time in ON-states and OFF-states, respectively. is the peak voltage between the drain and the source and is the peak current flowing through the SiC MOSFET.

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Figure 7: Experimental switching waveforms of the SiC-MOSFET at = 100 kHz. (a) ON-state. (b) OFF-state.

By using (2) and (3) it is possible to calculate power losses for the commutations, which are given by (4) and (5), where and are the power losses in the ON-states and OFF-states, respectively, and is the switching frequency.

4.2. Conduction Losses

The conduction loss is the sum of conduction losses of the MOSFET and the co-packed diode. Instant conduction loss () is directly related to the current through the semiconductor device and its ON-state resistance. This loss is represented by (6) where RDS is the drain source ON-state resistance of the MOSFET and is the root mean square value (RMS) of current through the device for this case. Then, by (7) the full sum of the power loss () is calculated. Table 3 presents the results of the losses analysis at = 100 kHz and = 6 A. In order to arrive at these results, firstly, we calculate by means of (2) and (3) the power loss by commutation in the ON and OFF states of the SiC-MOSFET, where the and time measurements were previously made (as is shown in Figure 6), using an oscilloscope. Then, by means of (4) and (5), the switching power losses are calculated. On the other hand, the conduction losses are calculated by using (6), where the measurements of the current using an oscilloscope are previously made for each case. Finally, through (7) the total power loss is calculated.

Table 3: Results of the losses analysis at = 100 kHz and = 6 A.

Parameter

(mJ)

(mJ)

(W)

(W)

(W)

Value

Figure 8(a) shows the curves of energy and power losses in relation to the switching frequency. The energy losses increase proportionally while increasing switching frequency with minor losses near the cutoff frequency of the filter. Figure 8(b) shows the power losses and efficiency () curves of the Bi-Sw, power losses in relation to current in the load and efficiency in relation to the load power maintaining a fixed 100 kHz frequency. The was obtained by the differences of the input power and the power loss by the Bi-Sw; it decreased from 95% to 90% when the load current was 0.2 A to 6 A, light bulb 100 W to 1200 W, respectively.

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(b)

Figure 8: Energy and power losses evaluations. (a) Energy and power losses curves in relation to the frequency. (b) Power losses and efficiency curves in relation to current in the load.

The experimental setup is shown in Figure 5(b), where the Bi-Sw, the load, the power supplies, the PWM generator, and the digital oscilloscope equipped with current and voltage probes are shown. Table 4 shows the comparison of the output voltage values calculated by (1) and measured with an oscilloscope on the resistive load connected to the output of the ac voltage regulator in Figure 5.

Table 4: Data of the ac voltage regulator circuit at = 100 kHz.

Input voltage  
(V)
Duty cycle 
(%)
Calculated  
(V)
Measured  
(V)

Figure 9 shows the input voltage waveforms , the output current , and the gate voltage . The test parameters were = 220 V AC, 1 kW load, and 50% PWM duty cycle. Figure 9(a) shows the response of the Bi-Sw at 1 kHz switching frequency and Figure 9(b) shows the response at 100 kHz switching frequency.

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Figure 9: Waveforms of the ac voltage regulator. = 220 V 50 Hz power supply, output current, and gate voltage at (a) = 1 kHz, 50% duty cycle and (b) = 100 kHz, 50% duty cycle.

The Bi-Sw commuted = 220 V 50 Hz power supply, with = 100 kHz and 50% duty cycle. In the Bi-Sw, it is seen that the SiC-MOSFETs are the hottest part at 54.6°C in the design, followed by the gate driver ISO 5500 at 31.0°C.

Thermal tests were also carried out for the system of Bi-Sw connected to the ac voltage regulator. A thermal imaging camera FLIR T440 was used. Results are shown in Figure 10.

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Figure 10: Thermal image of the Bi-Sw running at = 220 V, = 6A, = 100 kHz, and 50% duty cycle. The SiC-MOSFETs are shown to be the hottest part at 54.6°C. (a) Digital image. (b) Thermal image.

5. Conclusion

In this paper, a detailed design of a novel modular Bi-Sw using very up-to-date technologies in the market is given. Experimental test was performed using a voltage power converter regulator as a case study. Provided results in the ac voltage regulator showed that this Bi-Sw has an excellent operation. The main obtained results were the following: (a) Bi-Sw worked even at a high frequency of 200 kHz, helping minimize the components of passive filter in the ac voltage regulator but increase switching losses. (b) Power loss was 25 W with increasing of the switching frequency of 1 kHz to 200 kHz, 50% duty cycle, 2 A load current and 220 V 50 Hz power supply, and 125 W with increasing of the load current of 0.2 A to 6 A, 100 kHz switching frequency 50% duty cycle and 220 V 50 Hz power supply. (c) Efficiency decreased from 95% to 90% at increased 0.2 A to 6 A load current. (d) SiC-MOSFETs dissipate average temperature of 54.6°C.

Data Availability

Experimental results provided in the article were obtained in the Laboratory of Power and Control Systems, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional de Asunción (Paraguay) in 2018.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper.

Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the following research projects: CONACYT (Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología) by the Projects 14-INV-097 and POSG16-05; FONDECYT (Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico) (Project 1160690).

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