High-temperature performance characterization of buck converter using SiC and Si devices

PESC Record - IEEE Annual Power Electronics Specialists Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 1998, Pages 1561-1567

  Garuda, Venugopal R ^a   Kazimierczuk, Marian K ^a   Ramalingam, Mysore L ^a   Tunstall, Christopher ^a   Tolkkinen, Les ^a  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUCK CONVERTERS;

DIODES; ELECTRIC LOSSES; HIGH TEMPERATURE OPERATIONS; MOSFET DEVICES; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SILICON CARBIDE; THERMAL EFFECTS;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 0031634816     PISSN: 02759306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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