A Gate Drive Circuit for Silicon Carbide JFET

IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1162-1166

  Mino, Kazuaki ^a   Herold, Simon ^a   Kolar, J W ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Gate drive circuit; JFET; Silicon carbide; Switching behavior

Indexed keywords

CASCADE CONNECTIONS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FREQUENCIES; GATES (TRANSISTOR); MOSFET DEVICES; SILICON CARBIDE; THERMAL EFFECTS;

GATE DRIVE CIRCUITS; SWITCHING BEHAVIOR;

JUNCTION GATE FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS;

EID: 1442329113     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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