DEVICE COMPRISING AN ELECTRONIC COMPONENT WITH HIGH SWITCHING SPEED
An electrical switching device includes at least two electronic components, with a control circuit designed to control the or each component. Each component is connected to the control circuit by a respective connection, and each component has a switching speed that is higher than 10 kA/μs or higher than 20 kV/μs and wherein the or each connection has an inductance that is lower than 10 nH.
1 . An electrical switching device comprising:
at least two electronic components; and
a control circuit designed to control at least one of the components, each component being connected to the control circuit by a respective connection, each component having a switching speed higher than 10 kA/μs or higher than 20 kV/μs and the connection having an inductance lower than 10 nH.
2 . The device according to claim 1 wherein the components are made out of a material selected from the group consisting of diamond, silicon carbide and gallium nitride.
3 . The device according to claim 1 wherein the control circuit includes a signal amplifier, the connection connecting the amplifier to the component.
4 . The device according to claim 2 wherein the control circuit includes a signal amplifier, the connection connecting the amplifier to the component.
5 . The device according to claim 1 wherein the components are operative at a switching frequency between 1 kHz and 500 kHz.
6 . The device according to claim 2 wherein the components are operative at a switching frequency between 1 kHz and 500 kHz.
7 . The device according to claim 3 wherein the components are operative at a switching frequency between 1 kHz and 500 kHz.
8 . The device according to claim 5 wherein the components are operative at a switching frequency between 10 kHz and 40 kHz.
9 . The device according to claim 6 wherein the components are operative at a switching frequency between 10 kHz and 40 kHz.
10 . The device according to claim 7 wherein the components are operative at a switching frequency between 10 kHz and 40 kHz.
11 . The device according to claim I wherein the device comprises N components, N being an integer which is strictly greater than 1 and the circuit includes [(N+1)12] control units where [(N+1)12] if not an integer is rounded down to the nearest integer, each of the control units being connected to one or two electronic component.
12 . A device according to claim 2 , wherein the device comprises N components, N being an integer which is strictly greater than 1 and the circuit includes [(N+1)/2] control units where [(N+1)/2] if not an integer is rounded down to the nearest integer, each of the control units being connected to one or two electronic component(s).
13 . The device according to claim 1 , wherein the device comprises N components, N being an integer which is strictly greater than 1, and wherein the circuit includes N control units, each component being connected to a different unit.
14 . The device according to claims 1 wherein the device comprises a plurality of connections, each connection having a same inductance with 3% of each other.
15 . The device according to claim 1 wherein the connection has an inductance that is lower than 5 nH.
16 . The device according to claims 1 wherein each component has a switching speed that is higher than 15 kA/μs or 30 kV/μs.
17 . The device according to claim 1 wherein the circuit comprises of a plurality of control units synchronized with each other.
18 . The device according to claim 17 wherein each unit has an output and the units are synchronized by connecting each of the outputs of the units to the same potential
19 . A power converter comprising the device according to claim 1 .
20 . A railway vehicle comprising the power converter according to claim 19 .