Physically based models of high power semiconductors including transient thermal behavior

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 18, Issue 1 I, 2003, Pages 231-235

  Schröder, Stefan ^a   De Doncker, Rik W ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Circuit simulation; GTO; High power semiconductor; IGCT; MTO; Physical model; PSpice; Thermal model

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; THYRISTORS;

CIRCUIT SIMULATION; HIGH POWER SEMICONDUCTORS; THERMAL MODEL; THERMAL VOLTAGE;

TRANSIENTS;

EID: 0345382618     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2002.807147     Document Type: Article

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