Simulation and optimization of diode and insulated gate bipolar transistor interaction in a chopper cell using MATLAB and Simulink

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 874-883

  Bryant, Augus T ^a   Palmer, Patrick R ^b   Santi, Enrico ^c   Hudgins, Jerry L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c University of South Carolina   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Circuit modeling; Diode; Insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT); MATLAB; Optimization; Physics based semiconductor device models; Power semiconductor modeling; Simulation; Simulink

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MATLAB; OPTIMIZATION; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES;

CIRCUIT MODELING; PHYSICS-BASED SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS; POWER SEMICONDUCTOR MODELING;

INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS (IGBT);

EID: 34547898054     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2007.900443     Document Type: Article

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