Reducing Voltage Rating and Cost of Vehicle Power Systems with a New Transient Voltage Suppression Technology

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1652-1662

  Shen, Z John ^a   Robb, Francine Y ^b   Robb, Steve P ^b   Briggs, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DEARBORN   (United States)

^b ON SEMICONDUCTOR   (United States)

Author keywords

42 V PowerNet; Load dump protection; Power MOSFET; Transient voltage suppressor

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC LOAD MANAGEMENT; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; MOSFET DEVICES; POWER ELECTRONICS; RATING; TRANSIENTS; VEHICLE TRANSMISSIONS; ZENER DIODES;

POWER RATINGS;

VOLTAGE CONTROL;

EID: 0345306777     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2003.819618     Document Type: Article

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