Loss mechanisms in IGBT's under zero voltage switching

PESC Record - IEEE Annual Power Electronics Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 1992, Pages 1011-1017

  Kurnia, A ^a   Stielau, O H ^a   Venkataramanan, G ^a   Divan, D M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS (IGBT);

CONDUCTIVITY MODULATION; CURRENT DISTRIBUTION; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; INTERNAL INDUCTANCE; LOSS MECHANISMS; OPERATING LIMIT; RESONANT DC LINK INVERTER; SOFTSWITCHING CONVERTERS;

ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

EID: 33747675760     PISSN: 02759306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PESC.1992.254773     Document Type: Conference Paper

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