Prediction of bond wire fatigue of IGBTs in a PV inverter under long-term operation

Paula Diaz Reigosa; Huai Wang; Yongheng Yang; Frede Blaabjerg

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Prediction of bond wire fatigue of IGBTs in a PV inverter under long-term operation

Paula Diaz Reigosa, Huai Wang, Yongheng Yang, Frede Blaabjerg

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Bond wire fatigue is one of the dominant failure mechanisms in IGBT modules. However, the bond wire lifetime is not easily predictable and measurable to date due to several challenges. To overcome this challenge, this paper proposes a Monte Carlo based analysis method to predict the lifetime consumption of bond wires in a Photovoltaic (PV) inverter under long-term operation. The parameter distributions of IGBTs due to manufacturing variation and the annual stress profiles due to intermittent nature of solar irradiance and ambient temperature are taken into consideration. The proposed method enables a more realistic lifetime prediction with a specified confidence level compared to the state-of-the-art approaches. A study case on IGBT modules in a 10 kW three-phase PV inverter demonstrates the procedure and the results of the analysis. Finally, the lifetime distribution of bond wires permits to estimate the risk of unreliability of a single IGBT in a Photovoltaic (PV) inverter.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC)
Number of pages	8
Publisher	IEEE Press
Publication date	Mar 2015
Pages	3052-3059
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4799-6735-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/APEC.2015.7104787
Publication status	Published - Mar 2015
Event	30th Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, APEC 2015 - Charlotte, United States Duration: 15 Mar 2015 → 19 Mar 2015

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Conference	30th Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, APEC 2015
Country/Territory	United States
City	Charlotte
Period	15/03/2015 → 19/03/2015

Series	I E E E Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition. Conference Proceedings
ISSN	1048-2334

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Blaabjerg, F., Munk-Nielsen, S., Pedersen, K. & Popok, V.
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Reigosa, PD, Wang, H, Yang, Y & Blaabjerg, F 2015, Prediction of bond wire fatigue of IGBTs in a PV inverter under long-term operation. in Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC). IEEE Press, I E E E Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition. Conference Proceedings, pp. 3052-3059, 30th Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, APEC 2015, Charlotte, United States, 15/03/2015. https://doi.org/10.1109/APEC.2015.7104787

Prediction of bond wire fatigue of IGBTs in a PV inverter under long-term operation. / Reigosa, Paula Diaz; Wang, Huai; Yang, Yongheng et al.
Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC). IEEE Press, 2015. p. 3052-3059 (I E E E Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition. Conference Proceedings).

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