Characterization of a high-voltage press pack IGBT under soft-switching conditions

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

Volumn 3, Issue , 2002, Pages 2170-2174

  Linzen, Dirk ^a   Von Bloh, Jochen ^a   De Doncker, Rik W ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

ARCP; Press Pack IGBT; Simulation of Power Losses; Soft Switching

Indexed keywords

POWER LOSSES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC LOSSES; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; SWITCHING; THYRISTORS;

INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS;

EID: 0036444853     PISSN: 01972618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IAS.2002.1043832     Document Type: Conference Paper

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