Series connection of IGBT's with active voltage balancing

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 917-923

  Hong, Soonwook ^a   Chitta, Venkatesh ^a   Torrey, David A ^a  

^a Hyosung Co   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC DRIVES; GATES (TRANSISTOR); OVERVOLTAGE PROTECTION; THYRISTORS; TRANSIENTS; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTOR; INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTOR GATE DRIVES; OVERVOLTAGE CONTROL; SERIES CONNECTION; SWITCHING TRANSIENTS; VOLTAGE BALANCING;

BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS;

EID: 0032593028     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/28.777201     Document Type: Article

References (4)

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