Comparison of the state-of-the-art high power IGBTs, GCTs and ETOs

Conference Proceedings - IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition - APEC

Volumn 2, Issue , 2000, Pages 1129-1136

  Motto, Kevin ^a   Li, Yuxin ^a   Huang, Alex Q ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMITTER TURN-OFF (ETO) THYRISTORS; GATE COMMUTATED TURN-OFF (GCT) THYRISTORS; HIGH VOLTAGE INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS (HVIGBT);

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GATES (TRANSISTOR); POWER CONVERTERS; THYRISTORS;

BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS;

EID: 0033878352     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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