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Gate unit for a gate-commutated thyristor and integrated gate-commutated thyristor

The invention relates to a gate unit (22) for controlling a gate commutated thyristor (21), comprising: - a voltage selector (26) for selectively applying a high supply potential (Vpos), a middle supply potential (Vmid), and a low supply potential (Vneg); ...

2023

Method for operating a power converter and power converter

Drazen Dujic, Jakub Kucka

The present invention relates to a method for operating a resonant power converter (1) having a primary stage (2) and a secondary stage (3) at least one of which is actively operated and includes a half-bridge or full-bridge inverter (21) having a pull-up ...

2023

Resonant IGCT Soft-Switching: ZVS or ZCS

Drazen Dujic, Jakub Kucka, Gabriele Ulissi

2022

Power Reversal Algorithm for Resonant Direct Current Transformers for DC Networks

Drazen Dujic, Jakub Kucka, Renan Pillon Barcelos

2022

Shoot-Through Protection for an IGCT-Based ZVS Resonant DC Transformer

Drazen Dujic, Jakub Kucka

IGCTs have successfully demonstrated to be well-suited devices for an application in medium-voltage dc transformers based on LLC resonant converter topology. This application enables unusually high switching frequencies in kHz range thanks to the zero-volt ...

2022

A dc/dc converter and a method for operating a dc/dc converter

Drazen Dujic, Jakub Kucka

The present invention relates to a DC/DC converter (1) for transferring an active power between two DC subsystems (5, 6) comprising: - a first converter stage (3) and a second converter stage (4) both configured to be selectively operated as an active inve ...

2022

SOFTGATE – An IGCT Gate Unit for Soft Switching

Drazen Dujic, Jakub Kucka

This paper presents an IGCT unit that has been tailored for emerging soft-switching high-power applications. Redefining the state-of-the-art design and driving concepts, the size and consumption of the proposed unit can be reduced significantly. The paper ...

2022

Current Limiting in Overload Conditions of an LLC-Converter-Based DC Transformer

Drazen Dujic, Jakub Kucka

The dc transformers based on an LLC converter operated in open loop near resonant frequency have several crucial advantages compared to other topologies. These advantages are the stiff voltage ratio with a natural power flow, the dc grid isolation via medi ...

2021

Solid-State Technologies for Flexible and Efficient Marine DC Microgrids

Drazen Dujic, Jakub Kucka, Gabriele Ulissi, Seongil Kim

2021

An IGCT Gate Unit for Zero-Voltage-Switching Resonant DC Transformer Applications

Drazen Dujic, Jakub Kucka

Recently, IGCTs have shown a great potential for the soft-switching dc transformer applications based on LLC resonant converter. The zero-voltage switching that is present in this converter topology enables an operation of IGCTs without clamping circuit an ...

2021