Active voltage control of IGBTs for high power applications

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 894-901

  Palmer, Patrick R ^a   Rajamani, Haile S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; SHORT CIRCUIT CURRENTS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; VOLTAGE CONTROL; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ACTIVE VOLTAGE CONTROL METHOD; PRECONDITIONING BIAS; VOLTAGE FEEDBACK LOOP;

INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS;

EID: 3843094960     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2004.830078     Document Type: Article

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