Investigation of parallel operation of IGBTs

Conference Record - IAS Annual Meeting (IEEE Industry Applications Society)

Volumn 4, Issue , 2002, Pages 2585-2591

  Nelson, Jody J ^a   Venkataramanan, Giri ^a   Beihoff, Bruce C ^b  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b Rockwell Automation   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrete devices; IGBT; Module devices; Parallel operation; Standarized converters; Switching effects

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; POWER ELECTRONICS; SWITCHING;

PARALLEL OPERATIONS;

INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS;

EID: 0036443312     PISSN: 01972618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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