Conference paper
Module Integrated GaN Power Stage for High Switching Frequency Operation
An increased attention has been detected todevelop smaller and lighter high voltage power converters in therange of 50 V to 400 V domains. The applications for theseconverters are mainly focused for Power over Ethernet (PoE),LED lighting and ac adapters. Design for high power density isone of the targets for next generation power converters.
Thispaper presents an 80 V input capable multi-chip moduleintegration of enhancement mode gallium nitride (GaN) fieldeffect transistors (FETs) based power stage. The module design ispresented and validated through experimental results. The powerstage is integrated on a high glass transition temperature 0.4 mmthick FR4 substrate configured as a 70 pin ball grid arraypackage.
The power stage is tested up to switching frequency of12 MHz. The power stage achieved 88.5 % peak efficiency whenconfigured as a soft switching buck converter operating at 7MHz. The converter is tested up to 12 W of output power at 13 V± 1.5 V output voltage. The converter achieved a volume powerdensity of 20 W/cm3 and area power density of 9.4 W/cm2.
| Language: | English |
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| Publisher: | IEEE |
| Year: | 2017 |
| Pages: | 848-852 |
| Proceedings: | 12th IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems (PEDS 2017) |
| ISBN: | 1509023631 , 150902364X , 150902364x , 1509023658 , 9781509023639 , 9781509023646 and 9781509023653 |
| ISSN: | 21645264 and 21645256 |
| Types: | Conference paper |
| DOI: | 10.1109/PEDS.2017.8289242 |
| ORCIDs: | Nour, Yasser and Knott, Arnold |
Buck converters Field effect transistors GaN Gallium Nitride Gallium nitride High Frequency Converters III-V semiconductors Inductors Power Module Power generation Switches Switching frequency ac adapters enhancement mode gallium nitride field effect transistors gallium compounds integrated GaN power stage integrated circuit design multichip module integration multichip modules power 12.0 W power converters power field effect transistors power integrated circuits soft switching buck converter switching convertors voltage 1.5 V voltage 13.0 V voltage 50.0 V to 400.0 V wide band gap semiconductors
