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Unbalanced currents effect on the thermal characteristic and reliability of parallel connected power switches

Rahimi, Tohid, Ding, Lei, Abadifard, Armin, Ghavidel, Pedram, Farhadi, Masoud, Faraji, Rasoul·2021·Case Studies in Thermal Engineering
DOI 10.1016/j.csite.2021.101134
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In many industrial applications, parallel connection of power semiconductor switches is widely used to achieve higher power levels and fault-tolerant operation. But there is a current imbalance between parallel connected switches in practical applications. In this research, the impact of unbalanced currents on the junction temperature and the reliability of parallel connected switches are quantified and analyzed. Markov based reliability model is developed for quantitative assessment of reliability for parallel switches under different current sharing. The Mean Time to Failure (MTTF) is calculated for different conditions to be used as reliability metric for comparison of various conditions. A sensitivity analysis is also presented to show the effect of parameter variation on the junction temperatures of devices and reliability of the system. At last, a downscaled setup has been built up and tested. Experimental results verify the theoretical analysis and confirm procedure. Also, junction temperatures of power semiconductor devices are measured using thermal camera.

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Authors
Rahimi, T., Ding, L., Abadifard, A., Ghavidel, P., Farhadi, M., & Faraji, R.
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Case Studies in Thermal Engineering
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2021-08
Volume
26
Pages
101134
ISSN
2214-157X
DOI
10.1016/j.csite.2021.101134
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13
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Language
en
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China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2019M662356, 2019M662357)

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Rahimi, T., Ding, L., Abadifard, A., Ghavidel, P., Farhadi, M., & Faraji, R. (2021). Unbalanced currents effect on the thermal characteristic and reliability of parallel connected power switches. Case Studies in Thermal Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csite.2021.101134

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