A High Common-Mode Transient Immunity GaN-on-SOI Gate Driver With Quad-Drive Control Technique for High dV/dt 1700-V SiC Power Switch

Abstract

This article proposes a gallium nitride (GaN)-based isolated silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFET gate driver with an on-chip metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor that has high data rate and low propagation delay. The improved common-mode transient immunity (CMTI) envelope detection technique eliminates the common-mode current (ICM) to improve the CMTI. In addition, the proposed isolated gate driver (IGD) with quad-drive control (QDC) technique reduces power loss and gate ringing effect. Experimental results show that the proposed IGD can achieve a slew rate of 109 kV/μs. At a switching frequency of 100 kHz, the efficiency of the half-bridge isolated dc-dc converter can be kept higher than 90% when VIN changes from 800 to 1700 V, and the peak efficiency is 98.6% when VIN = 800 V.