Concept extends IGBT family with new 4.5kV, 6.5kV products
IGBT gate driver manufacturer CT-Concept Technologie GmbH, a Power Integrations company, has announced the availability of its 1SC0450V single driver core for IGBT modules with blocking voltages of 4.5kV and 6.5kV. The new product is very compact and enables IGBTs to be paralleled using only one driver core, which further reduces system size and increases reliability.
A new member of CONCEPT's high voltage gate driver core family, the 1SC0450V is based on the company's SCALE™-2 chip set and a partial discharge free, low coupling capacitance, high voltage DC/DC transformer. An advanced transformer design allows test voltages up to 10.4kVRMS and a partial discharge extinction voltage of 7800Vpeak. The driver core measures just 60mm by 90mm long with a height by the DC/DC transformer of only 27.50mm.
Explains Michael Hornkamp, CONCEPT's Director Regional Marketing and System Engineering: "Our high voltage gate driver core family - which also includes the 2SC0535T 3.3kV and 2SC0635T 4.5kV dual gate driver cores - reduces component count, therefore products are compact and very reliable." CONCEPT's 1SC0450V gate driver cores are suitable to drive all 4.5kV and 6.5kV IGBT modules currently available on the market.
Target markets include traction and other high voltage applications.
