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1DOE/Scandia PV Inverter Reliability Workshop
IGBT ReliabilityIssues and Needs
John Donlon
Powerex, Inc.173 Pavilion Lane
Youngwood, PA 15697724-925-4377
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2DOE/Scandia PV Inverter Reliability Workshop
The Most Powerful Alliance in the
Power-Electronics Field
General Electric
Mitsubishi Electric
Powerex
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• Corporate offices in Youngwood, PA
• 280 employees
• 120,000 square feet of facilities
• Design & manufacture
– Rectifiers and Thyristors
– Custom Modules
– Integrated POW-R-PAKs
• Sales & Marketing, Engineering, & Logistics for Mitsubishi
in the Americas
– IGBTs, IPMs, & MOSFET Modules
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4DOE/Scandia PV Inverter Reliability Workshop
Topics
Failure Modes
Mitigation
Industry perspective
Future Advances
Predictive Data
Switching scheme robustness
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Failure Modes
• Voltage
• Current
• SwSOA
• Temperature
• Mechanical (cycling/fatigue)
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6DOE/Scandia PV Inverter Reliability Workshop
Voltage
IGBTs have very limited avalanche capability so the rated voltage must never be exceeded…
Not even for a nano-second!!
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7DOE/Scandia PV Inverter Reliability Workshop
Voltage
• Over Voltage
• Cosmic Ray Effect
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8DOE/Scandia PV Inverter Reliability Workshop
Current
• Tj Max
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9DOE/Scandia PV Inverter Reliability Workshop
SwSOA
• Voltage
• Current
• Desaturation – linear operation
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10DOE/Scandia PV Inverter Reliability Workshop
Temperature
• Tj Max
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11DOE/Scandia PV Inverter Reliability Workshop
Cycling/Fatigue
• Power Cycling ΔTj
• Thermal Cycling ΔTc
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12DOE/Scandia PV Inverter Reliability Workshop
Mitigation - Voltage
• Voltage Margin
• Low Inductance Bus
• Snubbers
• Consider Cosmic Ray Effect
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13DOE/Scandia PV Inverter Reliability Workshop
Mitigation - Current
• Tj max Margin
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14DOE/Scandia PV Inverter Reliability Workshop
Mitigation - SwSOA
• Voltage/Current Limits
• Gate Drive Design
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15DOE/Scandia PV Inverter Reliability Workshop
Mitigation - Temperature
• Design Margin
• Know Your Customer/Application
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16DOE/Scandia PV Inverter Reliability Workshop
Mitigation – Cycling/Fatigue
• Understand and Consider Up Front
• Limit ΔT
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17DOE/Scandia PV Inverter Reliability Workshop
Industry Perspective
• IGBT Modules are Reliable
• IGBT is an Innocent Victim
• 30-50 FIT < 1 FIT
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18DOE/Scandia PV Inverter Reliability Workshop
Future Advances
• Lower Loss Chips
• Innovative Packaging
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19DOE/Scandia PV Inverter Reliability Workshop
Predictive Data
• ?
• Proprietary
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20DOE/Scandia PV Inverter Reliability Workshop
Switching Scheme Robustness
• ?
• Margin
• Limit Aggressiveness
• Know Your Application and Customer
• Field Test
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21DOE/Scandia PV Inverter Reliability Workshop
Q & ACOMPARE
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