Introducing the Emitter Turn-Off Thyristor (ETO): Numerical and experimental demonstration of unity turn-off gain capability

International Power Electronics Congress - CIEP

Volumn 1998, Issue , 1998, Pages 2-9

  Li, Yuxin ^a   Huang, Alex Q ^a   Motto, Kevin ^a   Xu, Aaron Z ^a  

^a Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIPOLAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRONICS PACKAGING; GATES (TRANSISTOR); INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; MOSFET DEVICES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; POWER ELECTRONICS; TECHNOLOGY;

CURRENT SATURATION CAPABILITY; EMITTER TURNOFF THYRISTOR; GATE TURNOFF THYRISTOR; REVERSE BIASED SAFE OPERATING AREA;

THYRISTORS;

EID: 0032273261     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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