An analysis of high power IGBT switching under cascade active voltage control

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 806-812

  Wang, Y ^a   Bryant, A T ^a   Palmer, P R ^b   Finney, S J ^c   Abu Khaizaran, M ^d   Li, G ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d BIRZEIT UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

^e Littelfuse Ireland Ltd   (United States)

Author keywords

Cascade Active Voltage Control; Controlled switching; High power IGET; Series connection; Stability

Indexed keywords

CASCADE CONTROL SYSTEMS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STABILITY; SWITCHING THEORY; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

CASCADE ACTIVE VOLTAGE CONTROL; CONTROLLED SWITCHING; HIGH POWER IGET; SERIES CONNECTION;

INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS;

EID: 33745930560     PISSN: 01972618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IAS.2005.1518426     Document Type: Conference Paper

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