Characterization and comparison of high blocking voltage IGBTs and IEGTs under hard- and soft-switching conditions

PESC Record - IEEE Annual Power Electronics Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Fujii, Kansuke ^a   Koellensperger, Peter ^a   De Doncker, Rik W ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC LOSSES; ELECTRIC SWITCHES; INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS (IGBT); POWER CONVERTERS; ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

AUXILIARY RESONANT COMMUTATED POLE INVERTER (ARCPI); BLOCKING VOLTAGE; SOFT-SWITCHING CONDITIONS; VOLTAGE CONVERTERS;

BLOCKING PROBABILITY;

EID: 42449100765     PISSN: 02759306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PESC.2006.1712138     Document Type: Conference Paper

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