New press pack IEGT that contributes to size reduction and higher efficiency of industrial equipment such as high voltage direct current transmission systems and inverters for industrial motor drives

Product News 2021-12

The package photograph of new press pack IEGT that contributes to size reduction and higher efficiency of industrial equipment such as high voltage direct current transmission systems and inverters for industrial motor drives.

Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation ("Toshiba") has started mass production of press pack Injection Enhanced Gate Transistor (IEGT) “ST2000GXH32” that employs trench type IEGT chips and newly developed high-speed diode chips for high voltage converters. This product has a collector-emitter voltage rating of 4500 V and a collector current (DC) rating of 2000 A.
The structure of cathode in the diode suppresses voltage oscillation during reverse recovery, improves reverse recovery tolerance. The newly developed voltage blocking structure realizes of withstand voltage at high temperature. Compared with the Toshiba’s existing product[1], new product ST2000GXH32 suppresses voltage oscillation during small reverse recovery current. This allows use of a small gate-drive resistor (RG(on)) and reduces turn-on switching loss[2][3] (Eon) by approximately 30 % from 12.0 J to 8.4 J (typical). Furthermore, the improved cathode enhances the peak power during reverse recovery by approximately 29 %. Furthermore, junction temperature rating (Tj) of ST2000GXH32 has been increased from 125 °C to 150 °C (maximum) by improving high temperature tolerance of the diode.
ST2000GXH32 contributes to size reduction and energy saving of high-voltage industrial equipment such as DC power transmissions, static VAR compensators, and motor drive inverters and converters.

Notes:

[1] ST2000GXH31
[2] ST2000GXH31 condition: VCC=2800 V, IC=2000 A, RG(on)=5.6 Ω, LS≈300 nH, Tj = 125 °C
[3] ST2000GXH32 condition: VCC=2800 V, IC=2000 A, RG(on)=3.6 Ω, LS≈300 nH, Tj = 150 °C

Applications

  • DC power transmission
  • Static VAR compensator
  • Industrial motor drive

Features

  • Low turn-on switching loss:
    Eon(typ.)=8.4 J (@VCC=2800 V, IC=2000 A, RG(on)=3.6 Ω, LS≈300 nH, Tj=150 ℃)
  • Wide reverse recovery safe operating area
  • Maximum junction temperature rating: Tj(max)=150 ℃

Main Specifications

(@Tc=25 °C, unless otherwise specified)

Part number
ST2000GXH32
Package PPI125A2
Absolute
maximum
ratings
Collector-emitter voltage VCES (V) 4500
Gate-emitter voltage VGES (V) ±20
Collector current (DC) IC (A) @Tf=101 °C 2000
Diode forward current (DC) IF (A) @Tf=64 °C 2000
Junction temperature Tj (°C) -40 to 150
Electrical
characteristics
Collector-emitter saturation voltage
VCE(sat) typ. (V)
@VGE=15 V, IC=2000 A,
Tj=150 °C
2.70
Forward voltage VF typ. (V) @IF=2000 A, Tj=150 °C 2.80
Turn-on switching loss
Eon typ. (J)
@VCC=2800 V, IC=2000 A,
RG(on)=3.6 Ω, LS≈300 nH,
Tj=150 °C
8.4
Turn-off switching loss
Eoff typ. (J)
@VCC=2800 V, IC=2000 A,
RG(off)=56 Ω, LS≈300 nH,
Tj=150 °C
13.2
Reverse recovery loss
Err typ. (J)
@VCC=2800 V, IF=2000 A,
RG(on)=3.6 Ω, LS≈300 nH,
Tj=150 °C
3.5

Internal Circuit

The illustration of internal circuit of new press pack IEGT that contributes to size reduction and higher efficiency of industrial equipment such as high voltage direct current transmission systems and inverters for industrial motor drives.

Application Circuit Examples

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The illustration of application circuit examples of new press pack IEGT that contributes to size reduction and higher efficiency of industrial equipment such as high voltage direct current transmission systems and inverters for industrial motor drives.

Note:
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