• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.360-364
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• 2013

The maximum breakdown voltage's characteristic within the Super Junction MOSFET structure comes from N-Drift and P-Pillar's charge balance. By developing P-Pillar from Planar MOSFET, it was confirmed that the breakdown voltage is improved through charge balance, and by setting the gate voltage at 10V, the characteristic comparisons of Planar MOSFET and Super Junction MOSFET are shown in picture 6. The results show that it had the same breakdown voltage as Planar MOSFET which increased temperature resistance by 87.4% at $.019{\Omega}cm^2$ which shows that by the temperature resistance increasing, the power module's power dissipation improved.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.188-193
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• 2011

A highly efficient AC-DC converter for small wind power generation systems using a brushless DC generator (BLDCG) is presented in this paper. The market standard AC-DC converter for a BLDCG consists of a three-phase diode rectifier and a boost DC-DC converter, which has an IGBT and a fast recovery diode (FRD). This kind of two-stage solution basically suffers from a large amount of conduction loss and the efficiency greatly decreases under a light load, or at a low current, because of the switching devices with a P-N junction. In order to overcome this low efficiency, especially at a low current, a three-phase bridgcless converter consisting of three upper side FRDs and three lower side Super Junction FETs is presented. In the overall operating speed region, including the cut-in speed, the efficiency of the proposed converter is improved by up to 99%. Such a remarkable result is validated and compared with conventional solutions by calculating the power loss based on I-V curves and the switching loss data of the adopted commercial switches and the current waveforms obtained through PSIM simulations.