Overview of power loss measurement techniques in power electronics systems

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 657-664

  Xiao, Chucheng ^a,b   Chen, Gang ^a,c   Odendaal, Willem G H ^a  

^a State University   (United States)

^b Vicor   (United States)

^c ON SEMICONDUCTOR   (United States)

Author keywords

Calorimetric methods; Power loss measurement

Indexed keywords

CALORIMETRY; ENERGY DISSIPATION; ESTIMATION; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; RELIABILITY THEORY;

POWER ELECTRONIC MODULES; POWER LOSS MEASUREMENT;

POWER ELECTRONICS; MAGNETIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

CALORIMETRIC METHODS; ELECTRICAL METHODS; INTEGRATED POWER ELECTRONIC MODULES; LOSS MEASUREMENT; PERFORMANCE AND RELIABILITIES; POWER ELECTRONICS SYSTEMS; POWER LOSS MEASUREMENT; POWER-LOSSES;

EID: 34249893081     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2007.895730     Document Type: Review

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