IGCT devices - Applications and future opportunities

Proceedings of the IEEE Power Engineering Society Transmission and Distribution Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2000, Pages 1223-1228

  Steimer, Peter ^a   Apeldorn, Oscar ^a   Carroll, Eric ^a  

^a ABB SWITZERLAND LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; GATES (TRANSISTOR); INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PLASMA DENSITY; POWER ELECTRONICS; SWITCHING NETWORKS; TRANSCONDUCTANCE; TRANSIENTS;

CATHODE CURRENT; INTEGRATED GATE COMMUTATED THYRISTOR; MONOLITHIC DIODE INTEGRATION; POWER SEMICONDUCTOR; REVERSE CONDUCTION;

THYRISTORS;

EID: 0038492603     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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