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A six-pack SiC intelligent power module (IPM), which is suitable for the proposed cascaded structure, is adopted for high efficiency and compactness. A hybrid control scheme, in which holding a particular switch always results in a turn-off or turn-on state according to the boost mode and the buck mode, is employed to reduce the switching losses. By applying the hybrid control scheme, the number of switching operations of the switches can be minimized. Since switchover of the current controller is not required, smooth transition is enabled not only from the buck mode to the boost mode but also vice versa. As a parallel control, a secondary control is employed with DC droop control, which has a trade-off relationship between voltage sag and current sharing. It is possible to enhance the accuracy of current sharing while effectively regulating the DC link voltage without voltage sag. This is verified experimentally using two modules as laboratory prototypes, of which the power rating is 20 kW each.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s23218777","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,10,27]],"date-time":"2023-10-27T11:50:18Z","timestamp":1698407418000},"page":"8777","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Bidirectional Six-Pack SiC Boost\u2013Buck Converter Using Droop Control in DC Nano-Grid"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"23","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8687-4758","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yeonwoo","family":"Kim","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Automotive Parts, Busan Machinery Research Center, Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials, Busan 46744, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Sewan","family":"Choi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical & Information Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul 01811, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,10,27]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"4876","article-title":"DC Microgrids\u2014Part I: A Review of Control Strategies and Stabilization Techniques","volume":"31","author":"Dragicevic","year":"2016","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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