Toward Reliable Power Electronics: Challenges, Design Tools, and Opportunities

By Huai Wang, Marco Liserre, Frede Blaabjerg. IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine, 2013

827 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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1. Frede Blaabjerg
2. Huai Wang
3. U. Choi
4. Marco Liserre
5. Ke Ma
6. Samir Kouro
7. Søren Jørgensen
8. Bin Wu

Citations in the corpus

• Optimum Number of Cascaded Cells for High-Power Medium-Voltage AC–DC Converters (2017, background): “A transition to a physics-based reliability design as proposed in [61] is advisable, and in general, reliability aspects need to be included in the design process of power electronic systems at an early stage.”
• In Situ Diagnostics and Prognostics of Solder Fatigue in IGBT Modules for Electric Vehicle Drives (2015, background): “EVs’ traction drive so that their failures could lead to a sudden breakdown of the power converter or even a catastrophic accident involving human lives [8]–[10].”
• Artificial Intelligence Aided Automated Design for Reliability of Power Electronic Systems (2019, neutral): “To circumvent the drawbacks of aforementioned methods, the research in reliability of power electronic systems has recently experienced a paradigm shift toward the so-called design for reliability (DfR) approach [6], [7].”
• Low Sampling Rate Online Parameters Monitoring of DC–DC Converters for Predictive-Maintenance Using Biogeography-Based Optimization (2016, background): “Therefore, they are mostly considered in the reliability analysis of the converter circuits [1]–[3].”
• IGBT Junction Temperature Measurement via Peak Gate Current (2016, background): “KNOWLEDGE of junction temperature in insulated-gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) or metal–oxide–semicondu ctor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) during the operation of power electronic converters can improve condition monitoring systems and enhance lifetime as well as chip utilization [1].”
• High-power wind energy conversion systems: State-of-the-art and emerging technologies (2015, background): “electronics technology is reported to be one of the major source for the failure or downtime of wind turbines [258].”
• Power Electronics Reliability: State of the Art and Outlook (2021, methodology): “In [1, 2], the methods for reliability prediction are reviewed.”
• Reliability of Capacitors for DC-Link Applications in Power Electronic Converters—An Overview (2014, background): “…rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights.”
• A Lumped Thermal Model Including Thermal Coupling and Thermal Boundary Conditions for High-Power IGBT Modules (2018, background): “The reason originates from the increased heat generation in the semiconductors that makes the thermal management of the device more critical [2].”
• A Survey on Wind Turbine Condition Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis—Part I: Components and Subsystems (2015, background): “, temperature, vibration and humidity, where temperature is the most dominant stressor [60].”
• Power Cycling Test Methods for Reliability Assessment of Power Device Modules in Respect to Temperature Stress (2018, background): “terms of failure rate, lifetime, and maintenance cost [4]–[7].”
• Study and Handling Methods of Power IGBT Module Failures in Power Electronic Converter Systems (2015, background): “Additionally, the industrial and energy sectors are following the same trend by aiming to improve the reliability of power electronics systems with costeffective and sustainable solutions [4].”