Voltage-balancing method for IGBTs connected in series

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1025-1030

  Sasagawa, Kiyoaki ^a   Abe, Yasushi ^a   Matsuse, Kouki ^b  

^a FUJI ELECTRIC CO   (Japan)

^b MEIJI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GATES (TRANSISTOR); INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

COLLECTOR-EMITTER VOLTAGES; SERIES CONNECTION; VOLTAGE BALANCE;

INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS;

EID: 3442877238     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2004.830794     Document Type: Article

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