Switching voltage transient protection schemes for high-current IGBT modules

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1601-1610

  Chokhawala, Rahul S ^a   Sobhani, Saed ^a  

^a ABB SWITZERLAND LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; GATES (TRANSISTOR); INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; SHORT CIRCUIT CURRENTS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; TRANSIENTS;

INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS (IGBT); RESISTOR CAPACITOR DIODES (RCD); SHORT CIRCUIT SAFE OPERATING AREA (SCSOA); SWITCHING SAFE OPERATING AREA (SSOA); SWITCHING VOLTAGE TRANSIENT PROTECTION SCHEMES;

BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS;

EID: 0031270649     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/28.649974     Document Type: Article

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