Controlled switching of high voltage IGBTs in series

2003 IEEE Conference on Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits, EDSSC 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 297-300

  Wang, Yalan ^a   Abu Khaizaran, Muhammad S ^b   Palmer, Patrick R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b BIRZEIT UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON DEVICES;

ACTIVE VOLTAGE; ACTIVE VOLTAGE CONTROLS; AUXILIARY LOOPS; CONTROLLED SWITCHING; HIGH POWER; HIGH VOLTAGE; SWITCHING CONTROL;

SOLID STATE DEVICES;

EID: 33745874314     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EDSSC.2003.1283535     Document Type: Conference Paper

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