Integral 3-D thermal, electrical and mechanical design of an automotive DC/DC converter

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 566-575

  Gerber, Mark ^a   Ferreira, J A ^a   Seliger, Norbert ^b   Hofsajer, Ivan W ^c  

^a Department of Microelectronics   (Netherlands)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

High power density dc dc converter; Three dimensional (3 D)

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE ENGINES; ELECTRONICS PACKAGING; HIGH TEMPERATURE APPLICATIONS; POWER ELECTRONICS; POWER INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; THERMODYNAMICS;

AUTOMOTIVE CONVERTER; HIGH POWER DENSITY CONVERTER; THERMAL MANAGEMENT;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 19144362332     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2005.846557     Document Type: Article

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