The High Power and High Frequency Operation of the Emitter Turn-off (ETO) Thyristor

IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1167-1172

  Zhang, Bin ^a   Liu, Yunfeng ^a   Zhou, Xigen ^a   Hawley, Josh ^a   Huang, Alex Q ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emitter turn off (ETO) thyristor; Gate turn off (GTO) thyristor; Snubberless turn off

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; EMITTER COUPLED LOGIC CIRCUITS; FREQUENCIES; SILICON;

EMITTER TURN-OFF (ETO) THYRISTORS; SNUBBERLESS TURN-OFF;

THYRISTORS;

EID: 1442329111     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (9)

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