Impact of load-pulse duration on power-cycling capability of SiC devices

Conference: CIPS 2020 - 11th International Conference on Integrated Power Electronics Systems
03/24/2020 - 03/26/2020 at Berlin, Deutschland

Proceedings: ETG-Fb. 161: CIPS 2020

Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF

Authors:
Salmen, Paul; Methfessel, Torsten; Schilling, Oliver (Infineon Technologies, Warstein, Germany)
Kuenzel, Cesare (TU Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany)

Abstract:
In this paper, we discuss the influence of different load-pulse durations ton on the power-cycling (PC) capability of SiC devices. We show that for all tested times between 0.5 s and 60 s, the failure mechanism remains solder degradation, as already known for ton=2 s. An assumed power law dependence of cycle numbers on turn-on time is described by two similar fitting approaches with and without saturation. Dependencies are extracted from the data by the least-square fitting procedure. Both derived parameter sets are similar to known values for silicon chips. Thus, different mechanical properties of the base material do not influence the ton dependency; only the absolute number of cycles is reduced. Additionally, we are able to verify the degradation models proposed by [1 – Herold, C.; Schäfer, M.; Sauerland, F.; Poller, T.; Lutz, J.; Schilling, O.: Power cycling capability of Modules with SiC-Diodes; Proc. CIPS, 2014].