IEEE Power Electronics Magazine - September 2020 - 28

Streamlined SiC
Development With a Total
System Solution
Marching toward a
new paradigm
by Kevin Speer,
Nitesh Satheesh,
Avinash Kashyap, and
Serge Bontemps

T

oday, multiple silicon carbide (SiC) device
suppliers update their growing product catalogs every few months. As options increase,
the next challenge facing the widespread
adoption of SiC is the design-in process. Using
these fast-switching components requires a multifaceted,
holistic solution involving the semiconductor die, package, gate driver, and the interactions of all three technologies. This article shows one such solution. Following a
discussion of the subject SiC MOSFET's performance
and ruggedness, an optimized power module package
and innovative gate driver solution are described in
detail. It is then shown how these three key pieces may
be seamlessly integrated into a total system solution,
simplifying the design process of SiC while maintaining a
march toward a new paradigm in power electronics.

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Introduction
Great capabilities bring great responsibilities. The power
electronics community has heard for decades about the
promise of SiC to revolutionize the industry; the time has
come for industry to accept the responsibilities that come
with realizing this potential. What is holding back the adoption of this disruptive semiconductor technology?
The adoption of SiC hinges not just on price, but also on
suppliers' emphasis on providing design solutions rather
than design challenges. After all, engineers have been succeeding with IGBT technologies for decades, and few are
keen to fix something that is not broken. Hopeful suppliers
of SiC must face three realities: First, the robustness of SiC
MOSFETs must be demonstrated, as there is no surer way
to halt a debate about whether to use SiC or silicon. Second,
much of SiC's value proposition hinges on the optimization
of system-wide parasitic inductance; rightfully, then, the
burden to minimize parasitic inductance of SiC power packaging rests on the shoulders of component-makers. Third,
faster switching devices necessitate more sophisticated
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