A new current-source converter using a symmetric gate-commutated thyristor (SGCT)

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 896-903

  Zargari, Navid R ^a,b   Rizzo, Steven C ^a,b   Xiao, Yuan ^a,b   Iwamoto, Hideo ^c   Satoh, Katsumi ^c   Donlon, John F ^d  

^a IEEE

^b ROCKWELL AUTOMATION   (Canada)

^c MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^d POWEREX INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Current source converter; Hard driven gate turn off thyristor; Medium voltage applications; Power semiconductor devices; Symmetric gate commuted thyristor; Variable speed drives

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC COMMUTATORS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MOS DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; THYRISTORS; VARIABLE SPEED DRIVES;

BIPOLAR THYRISTOR STRUCTURE; CURRENT SOURCE CONVERTERS; CURRENT SOURCE INVERTERS; POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SNUBBER CIRCUIT; SWITCHING FREQUENCY; SYMMETRIC GATE COMMUTATED THYRISTOR;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 0035330257     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/28.924773     Document Type: Article

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