Optimized gate drivers for Internally Commutated Thyristors (ICTs)

Conference Record - IAS Annual Meeting (IEEE Industry Applications Society)

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages 2269-2275

  Köllensperger, Peter ^a   De Doncker, Rik W ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC DRIVES; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; OPTIMIZATION; THYRISTORS;

INTERNALLY COMMUTATED THYRISTORS (ICT); VOLTAGE SOURCE INVERTERS;

GATES (TRANSISTOR);

EID: 34948892721     PISSN: 01972618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IAS.2006.256858     Document Type: Conference Paper

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