The application of saturable turn-on snubbers to IGBT bridge-leg circuits

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1101-1110

  Finney, Stephen J ^a   Tooth, Daniel J ^a   Fletcher, John Edward ^a   Williams, Barry W ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Insulated gate bipolar transistors; Snubbers

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY; GATES (TRANSISTOR);

INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS (IGBT); SNUBBERS;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 0033323389     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/63.803404     Document Type: Article

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