TY - JOUR
T1 - Synthesized high-frequency thyristor for dielectric barrier discharge excimer lamps
AU - Cousineau, Marc
AU - Díez, Rafael
AU - Piquet, Hubert
AU - Durrieu, Olivier
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received September 27, 2010; revised December 17, 2010; accepted January 19, 2011. Date of publication February 17, 2011; date of current version November 1, 2011. This work was supported in part by the Evaluation-Orientation de la Coopération Scientifique (ECOS) program (ECOS-Nord/ Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación– Instituto Colombiano de Crédito y Estudios Técnicos en el Exterior/Project C10P01).
PY - 2012/4
Y1 - 2012/4
N2 - Dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) lamps, being capacitive loads, must be associated with bidirectional current sources for an appropriate control of the transferred power. Pulsed current source supplies, which are known to offer very interesting performances, require specific power switches that are able to manage bidirectional voltage and unidirectional current at much higher frequencies (several hundreds of kilohertz) than commercial thyristors. This paper proposes the detailed design of such a high-speed synthesized thyristor, using discrete components: a MOSFET in series with a high-voltage (HV) diode and a logic circuit that controls its gate. This switch is associated with an optimized self-powered driver, which is a very efficient solution to handle the perturbations associated with the HV and high-frequency operation. Experimental application of this device for DBD excimer lamp supply is proposed.
AB - Dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) lamps, being capacitive loads, must be associated with bidirectional current sources for an appropriate control of the transferred power. Pulsed current source supplies, which are known to offer very interesting performances, require specific power switches that are able to manage bidirectional voltage and unidirectional current at much higher frequencies (several hundreds of kilohertz) than commercial thyristors. This paper proposes the detailed design of such a high-speed synthesized thyristor, using discrete components: a MOSFET in series with a high-voltage (HV) diode and a logic circuit that controls its gate. This switch is associated with an optimized self-powered driver, which is a very efficient solution to handle the perturbations associated with the HV and high-frequency operation. Experimental application of this device for DBD excimer lamp supply is proposed.
KW - Charge transfer
KW - dielectric barrier discharge (DBD)
KW - excimer UV lamps
KW - semiconductor switches
KW - switched mode power supplies
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=80455156337&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/TIE.2011.2116761
DO - 10.1109/TIE.2011.2116761
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:80455156337
SN - 0278-0046
VL - 59
SP - 1920
EP - 1928
JO - IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
JF - IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
IS - 4
M1 - 5715873
ER -