A new validated physically based IGCT model for circuit simulation of snubberless and series operation

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1606-1612

  Kuhn, Harald ^a   Schröder, Dierk ^b  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Integrated gate commutated thyristor (IGCT) model; Series connection; Snubberless operation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC COMMUTATION; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; THYRISTORS; VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT;

HARD SWITCH SNUBBERLESS OPERATION; INTEGRATED GATE COMMUTATED THYRISTOR; SERIES CONNECTED SWITCH;

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT TESTING;

EID: 0036874246     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2002.804757     Document Type: Article

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