DV/DT related spurious gate turn-on of bidirectional switches in a high-frequency cycloconverter

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1237-1243

  Burra, Rajni Kant ^a   Mazumder, Sudip K ^a   Huang, Rongjun ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Chicago   (United States)

Author keywords

Body diode reverse recovery; Cycloconverter; Failure mode; Shoot through; Spurious gate turn on

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC SWITCHES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MOSFET DEVICES; SHORT CIRCUIT CURRENTS; THRESHOLD VOLTAGE;

BODY DIODE REVERSE RECOVERY; CYCLOCONVERTER; FAILURE MODE; SPURIOUS GATE TURN-ON;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 28444498108     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2005.857509     Document Type: Article

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