New Lossless less Turn-On and Turn-Off (Snubber) Networks for Inverters, Including Circuits for Blocking Voltage Limitation

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn PE-1, Issue 2, 1986, Pages 65-75

  Zach, Franz C ^a   Kaiser, Karl H ^a   Kolar, Johann W ^a   Haselsteiner, Franz J ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC INVERTERS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; TRANSISTORS - SWITCHING;

LOSSLESS TURN-ON AND TURN-OFF SNUBBERS; POWER TRANSISTORS SWITCHING LOSS MINIMIZATION; STRESS-RELIEVING NETWORKS; TRANSISTORIZED PULSEWIDTH MODULATED (PWM) INVERTERS; VOLTAGE LIMITATION BLOCKING CIRCUITS;

ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS, SWITCHING;

EID: 0022702974     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: 19410107     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.1986.4766285     Document Type: Article

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