Experiment and analysis for single IGCT equipped in MV three-level inverter

Conference Record - IAS Annual Meeting (IEEE Industry Applications Society)

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 825-829

  Yuan, Liqiang ^a   Zhao, Zhengming ^a   Liu, Jianzheng ^a   Li, Bing ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GUODIAN NANJING AUTOMATION CO LTD   (China)

Author keywords

IGCT; Medium voltage; Switching experiment; Three level

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RELIABILITY; SWITCHING THEORY; TOPOLOGY;

IGCT; KWD MEDIUM VOLTAGE; SWITCHING EXPERIMENT; THREE-LEVEL;

TRANSISTORS;

EID: 33745915291     PISSN: 01972618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IAS.2005.1518430     Document Type: Conference Paper

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