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Electronics in Motion and Conversion September 2012 SECURING YOUR PROJECTS ISSN: 1863-5598 ZKZ 64717 09-12 Electronics in Motion and Conversion September 2012 SECURING YOUR PROJECTS Welcome to the House of Competence. GvA is your expert in individual problem solutions for all sectors of power electronics – state of the art know how and profound experience as an engineering service provider, manufacturer and distributor. Consulting – Design & Development – Production – Distribution GvA Leistungselektronik GmbH | Boehringer Straße 10 - 12 | D-68307 Mannheim Tel +49 (0) 621/7 89 92-0 | www.gva-leistungselektronik.de | [email protected] CONTENT Viewpoint It’s Show Time around the world! . 4 Events . 6 Superior Solutions for News . 6-14 Blue Product of the Month Industrial. Reduction of Extreme High Inrush-Currents Thomatronik . 16 Green Product of the Month Power Solutions for More Efficiency Vicor by Marisa Robles Consée, Corresponding Editor; Bodos Power Systems . 18-19 Editorial Report Back to Normal Soon, Chipmaker Renesas Electronics By Marisa Robles Consée, Corresponding Editor; BPSystems . 20-21 Market Electronics Industry Digest By Aubrey Dunford, Europartners . 22 Market Darnell Report By Jeff Shepard, President Darnell Group . 24-25 Automotive Power eCarTec: Join the eMobility Revolution! By Marisa Robles Consée, Corresponding Editor; BPSystems . 26-27 Coverstory SKiN Technology for Ultra Compact Power Modules ByThomas Graßhoff, Semikron International GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany . 28-31 Automotive Power Solutions for On-Board Chargers, All Charged Up By Cem Som, Development Transformers, EPCOS . 32-33 IGBT Modules Low Inductive Inverter Design Using a New Power Module Concept By Xi Zhang, Daniel Domes, Reinhold Bayerer and Alexander Herbrandt, Infineon Technologies AG . 34-35 Thermal Management Aluminum electro- Common-mode Energy Efficiency and Design Freedom of Busbars lytic capacitors for chokes for high By Koen Hollevoet, Business Opportunity Analyst, Rogers . 36-37 high ripple currents currents DC/DC Converter High Speed, Two Quadrant DC/DC Power Supply PFC products for Varistors and surge By Milan Marjanovic, Texas Instruments . 38-41 energy saving and arresters for over- Power Supply power quality voltage protection Total Solution for Energy Efficient Home Appliance Power Supply By Won-Seok Kang, Senior Application Engineer, EMC and sine-wave Power electronic Power Conversion Korea, Fairchild Semiconductor . 42-43 filters for currents capacitors with up to 8 kA high reliability Technology eGaN® FET Safe Operating Area By John Worman and Yanping Ma, X and Y capacitors High-current chokes Efficient Power Conversion Corporation . 44-46 for EMI suppression for power supplies Transformers Optimizing Three-Phase Planar Transformer Construction By R. Prieto, R. Asensi, O. García, J. A. Cobos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Centro de Electrónica Industrial (CEI), Madrid and F. D. Gerez Premo Group. Barcelona, Spain . 48-51 Diodes and Rectifiers High Current Rectifier Diodes for Welding Applications MLCC mega caps SMT power By Björn Backlund ABB Switzerland Ltd, Semiconductors and with high ripple inductors with Ladislav Radvan ABB s.r.o. Semiconductors . 52-54 current capability high reliability DC/DC Converter The Half-Bridge Circuit Revealed Rare earth and Large ferrite By Tom Ribarich, International Rectifier, Director, Lighting Systems ferrite magnets cores and Applications . 56-58 New Products www.bodospower.com www.tdk.eu · www.epcos.com The Gallery 2 Bodo´s Power Systems® September 2012 www.bodospower.com Taming the Beast New 3.3kV SCALE-2 IGBT Driver Core Features The new dual-channel IGBT driver core 2SC0535T for Highly integrated dual channel IGBT driver high voltage IGBT modules eases the design of high 2-level and multilevel topologies power inverters. Using this highly integrated device !!""# [ Operating temperature -55..+85°C design cycle and reduces the engineering risk. Beside <100ns delay time the cost advantage resulting from the SCALE-2 ASIC ±4ns jitter - ±35A gate current [ Isolated DC/DC converter interfaces. 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Time has flown by and Corresponding Editor Santa’s probably already making his prepa- Marisa Robles Consée, rations. [email protected] Creative Direction & Production The last quarter of the year will be a busy Repro Studio Peschke time for us all. The most popular electronic [email protected] show this fall will be the Electronica in November. And in advance of the Electroni- ca we have a busy September and October. tors. Finally, Premo together with the Univer- Free Subscription to qualified readers EPE in Novi Sad, Serbia starts the race, fol- sity of Madrid has presented a three-phase lowed by the world’s best wind power event transformer with flat conductor layers for Bodo´s Power Systems HusumWindEnergy in Germany. The next high power. is available for the following subscription charges: leg of events include the Thermal Manage- Annual charge (12 issues) is 150 € ment show in Denver, the LED in Bregenz, Besides the high power elements, we have world wide Austria on the Bodensee Lake and EU more great technical information in this, the Single issue is 18 € PVSEC, the photovoltaic production confer- September issue. Fairchild looks at energy [email protected] ence and show in Frankfurt - and that’s just efficient home appliance power supplies, an circulation print run September - October will continue at the important area of volume applications that 20000 same pace! has a major impact on power consumption. Texas Instruments investigates DC/DC con- My partners have upgraded the Chinese verter efficiency. A lot of great technical con- Printing by: web-site of Bodo’s Power China with tent to digest for experts worldwide. Central-Druck Trost GmbH & Co enhanced capabilities such as a video chan- Heusenstamm, Germany nel, an industry company catalogue and The PowerGuru internet platform is growing enhanced user interaction functionality. Reg- with my past and current articles up for A Media and Bodos Power Systems istered users can also now create their own search and retrieval. Cooperating with Pow- assume and hereby disclaim any blog on the site. Check out what is new in erGuru has been a great step forward - have liability to any person for any loss or China at www.bodospowerchina.com. a look at www.powerguru.org. PowerGuru damage by errors or omissions in the has finalized the conversion of all the maga- material contained herein regardless Technology is moving fast and we always zine articles back to 2006. of whether such errors result from negligence accident or any other look forward to improvements with new cause whatsoever. materials, both in semiconductors and pas- Communication is the only way to progress. sive components, the bread and butter to get We delivered twelve issues last year and will Read online and search for key subjects systems running. This month’s cover story continue each month, on time, every time. from all articles in Bodo’s Power Systems covers improved capability using the “skin So far this year we have published 668 by going to Powerguru: technology” developed by Semikron. This pages and, more importantly, 113 technical technology targets e-mobility and renewable articles. As a media partner, Bodo’s Power energy systems including solar and wind Systems is internationally positioned. If you power. Rogers has contributed an interest- speak the language, or just want to take to ing article to this edition on Busbars and look, don’t miss our Chinese version: their importance in power inverter systems www.bodospowerchina.com. where they are responsible for current distri- bution and thermal management. Low induc- My Green Power Tip for September: tance is another issue in inverter design and Leave a few apples on the trees and berries is explained in detail in an article provided by on the bushes for the birds to help them sur- Infineon, while EPC (Electronic Power Con- vive the winter. They’ll sing their songs for version) has provided insights to the subject you in your garden to say “thanks!” of GaN and SOA (Safe Operating Area). 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