Modeling the turn-off of IGBT's in hard- and soft-switching applications

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 887-893

  Trivedi, Malay ^a   Shenai, Krishna ^b  

^a University of Illinois   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; GATES (TRANSISTOR); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERFORMANCE; SWITCHING; SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

SOFT SWITCHING;

BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS;

EID: 0031139381     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.568054     Document Type: Article

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