Advanced System Engineering Lab

Power Electronics - equipment and tools

Measuring Switching Losses
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Our Power Electronics Laboratory offers a wide range of possibilities for the development of innovative power electronics with state-of-the-art development tools and highly qualified staff.

Customer-developed power electronics can be commissioned and examined in detail. The development and characterization of particularly low-impedance embedded and DBC wide-bandgap power modules is of special importance for our future-oriented research activities. Furthermore, we perform EMC investigations, design, test and optimize passive and active filters.

Our portfolio covers automotive and industrial power electronics. This includes WBG power modules, EV traction inverters, on-board chargers, BMS electronics, high voltage DC/DC converters, DC wall boxes, high power fuses, PV inverters, high current power supplies, active common mode filters and much more.

In cooperation with other departments at Fraunhofer IZM, we can make cross sections, sonoscans, X-rays and CTs to investigate the quality of the interconnection technology. Our equipment fleet is constantly being adapted to meet new challenges.

Laboratory equipment

  • Protected workstations for commissioning power electronics
  • Tektronix MSO 4000 and MSO 5000 series oscilloscopes
  • Tektronix IsoVu isolated differential high-voltage probes
  • PMK BumbleBee differential high-voltage probes
  • Current probes up to 500 A and 120 MHz
  • WBG power dissipation measuring station to measure switching losses of SiC and GaN power semiconductors under real conditions up to 500 A and 100 MHz
  • Agilent impedance analyzer and gain-phase analyzer for device characterization
  • ed-k power choke tester DPG10 - 1000 A
  • Yokogawa WT3000 efficiency meter (basic accuracy 0.01%)
  • Zimmer LMG671 precision power analyzer
  • Delta Elektronika SM 15 kW DC power supplies up to 1500 V or 200 A
  • Electronic AC and DC loads up to 22 kW
  • 300 V function generator
  • 10 kV power supply for insulation tests
  • FLIR and Fluke thermal imaging cameras
  • BNC 577 DDG pulse generator 0.001 Hz ... 20 MHz
  • Shielding cabin 3 x 4 m with turn table and measuring antennas
  • AC network simulations
  • DC BEV network simulations
  • Rohde & Schwarz ESU 20 Hz ... 8 GHz radio interference measuring receiver
  • Assembly and JBC rework of PCBs

Design tools

  • Altium Designer
  • CAM350
  • ANSYS
  • Simplorer
  • Portunus
  • FastFieldSolvers
  • Q3D
  • Solid Works
  • Matlab