Energies, Vol. 11, Pages 1951: Extraction of Junction Temperature of SiC MOSFET Module Based on Turn-On dIDS/dt (Energies)

In this paper, a method of extracting the junction temperature based on the turn-on current switching rate (dIDS/dt) of silicon carbide (SiC) metal-oxide semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFETs) is proposed. The temperature dependence of dIDS/dt is analyzed theoretically, and experimentally to show that dIDS/dt increases with the rising junction temperature. In addition, other factors affecting dIDS/dt are also discussed by using the fundamental device physics equations and experiments. The result shows that the increase of the DC-link voltage VDC, the external gate resistance RG-ext, and the decrease of the driving voltage VGG can increase the temperature sensitivity of the dIDS/dt. A PCB (printed circuit board) Rogowski coil measuring circuit based on the fact that the SiC MOSFET chip temperature and dIDS/dt is estimated in a linear way is designed to obtain the junction temperature. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed junction temperature extracting is effective.