Professorship | Professorship of Power Electronics | Fakulty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology | TU Chemnitz
Professorship of Power Electronics
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Welcome to the Professorship of Power Electronics!

   

 

The research focus of the Professorship of Power Electronics is the investigation of robustness and reliability of power semiconductor devices. The main focus is on the topics of overload capability (short circuit, surge current, avalanche) and power cycling ruggedness. This includes the consideration of the semiconductor materials Si, SiC and GaN. Semiconductor and thermomechanical simulations on FEM basis are being used to examine internal physical processes further in detail.
Until 2020 the professorship was headed by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Prof. h.c. Josef Lutz. After that Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Basler took over.

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At the PCIM Europe, the user-oriented seminars and tutorials are an optimal platform for direct exchange. The full day totorial of Josef Lutz is on Reliability and Lifetime Estimation of Si and Wide Bandgap Power Devices and Packages. Here is the link to the tutorial May 8th:

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There are much new trends in packaging, driven by E-car drive inverters: Molded packages, advanced insulation sheets, new cooling methods - single side/double side cooling, etc. The tutorial will now address the new solutions for heat flux. Further, outdoor application are challenging the reliability under high humidity. New suggested test methods will also be included. The tutorial will be widely updated compared to former tutorials of Josef Lutz. Here's the link for more information and to get your ticket: Ticket

More Information can be found here: Link

In the following article, an offical statement of Prof. Lutz can be found (german only):

Chair for Power Electronics and Center for Microtechnologies at TU Chemnitz are combining their expertise for reliability, robustness, and lifetime estimation for power semicondcutor switches within EU-project „TRANSFORM“ Aritcle in german can be found here.

Christian Schwabe, PhD Student at the Chair of Power Electronics at the Technical University of Chemnitz, received at the -PCIM Europe 2021-, the biggest conference for power electronics in europe, the Young Engineer Award. The article (german) can be found here TU Homepage or as .

The whole article (in german) can be found here:

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Recent Publications

Nr. Titel Autoren Jahr
1 Investigation of the Gate Voltage Overshoot of IGBTs Under Short Circuit Type II Condition Liu, Xing* et al. 2023
2 SiC MOSFET threshold voltage stability during power cycling testing and the impact on the result interpretation Schwabe, Christian* et al. 2023
3 Structure and Robustness Optimization of Fast High Power Diodes Zhi, Zheng 2023
4 Bestimmung lebensdauerrelevanter Parameter von IGBTs im Antriebsumrichter von Elektrofahrzeugen Hiller, Sebastian 2022
5 Dynamic high temperature operating life test methodology for long-term switching reliability of GaN power devices Tayyab, Muhammad Farhan* et al. 2022
6 Impact of Bond Wire Configuration on the Power Cycling Capability of Discrete SiC-MOSFET Devices Heimler, Patrick* et al. 2022
7 Impact of Degradation Mechanisms in Gate Stress Tests on the Hard-Switching Behavior of 1.2 kV SiC Power MOSFETs Boldyrjew-Mast, Roman* et al. 2022
8 Influence of Magnetic Coupling Effects between Load and GateCommutation Loop on the Short Circuit Behavior Bäumler, Christian* et al. 2022
9 Investigation of the Short Circuit Type II Safe Operating Area of IGBTs Mysore, Madhu Lakshman et al. 2022
10 Methodology for designing and testing long-term Hard-switching for GaN power HEMT Tayyab, Muhammad Farhan et al. 2022