Silicon carbide thyristors for electric guns

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 33, Issue 1 PART 1, 1997, Pages 432-437

  Burke, Terence ^a   Xie, Kezhou ^a   Singh, Hardev ^a   Podlesak, Thomas ^a   Flemish, Joseph ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC LAUNCHERS; SEMICONDUCTOR SWITCHES; SILICON CARBIDE;

SILICON POWER THYRISTORS; SOLID STATE SWITCHES;

THYRISTORS;

EID: 0030675253     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.560051     Document Type: Article

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