Novel passive lossless turn-on snubber for voltage source inverters

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 173-179

  He, Xiangning ^a,b   Finney, Stephen J ^c   Williams, Barry W ^c   Qian, Zhao Ming ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

IGBT; Inverter; Snubber

Indexed keywords

BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC LOADS; ELECTRIC SWITCHES; POWER SUPPLY CIRCUITS;

INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTOR; SNUBBER; VOLTAGE SOURCE INVERTERS;

POWER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 0030835092     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/63.554183     Document Type: Article

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