IGCT technology baseline and future opportunities

Proceedings of the IEEE Power Engineering Society Transmission and Distribution Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2001, Pages 1182-1187

  Steimer, Peter ^a   Apeldoorn, Oscar ^a   Carroll, Eric ^a   Nagel, Andreas ^b  

^a ABB SWITZERLAND LTD   (Switzerland)

^b ABB CORPORATE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Industrial power systems; Insulated gate bipolar transistors; Motor drives; Power conversion; Power quality; Power transmission; Thyristors; Traction motor drives

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRIC DRIVES; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; POWER CONVERTERS;

INDUSTRIAL POWER SYSTEMS; INTEGRATED GATE-COMMUTATED THYRISTOR (IGCT);

THYRISTORS;

EID: 0035683771     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TDC.2001.971429     Document Type: Article

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