A 55 kW three-phase inverter with Si IGBTs and SiC schottky diodes

Conference Proceedings - IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition - APEC

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 448-454

  Ozpineci, Burak ^a   Chinthavali, Madhu S ^b   Tolbert, Leon M ^a,c   Kashyap, Avinash ^d   Mantooth, H Alan ^d  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE AND EDUCATION   (United States)

^c University of Tennessee   (United States)

^d University of Arkansas   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE INVERTER; CIRCUIT SIMULATORS; POWER CONVERTER EFFICIENCY; SILICON CARBIDE (SIC) POWER DEVICES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; SILICON CARBIDE;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 33749519667     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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