Long-term stability test system for high-voltage, high-frequency SiC power devices

Conference Proceedings - IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition - APEC

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1240-1246

  Duong, Tam H ^a,b   Berning, David W ^b   Hefner Jr , A R ^b   Smedley, Keyue M ^a  

^a University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

(100) SILICON; APPLIED (CO); BOOST CONVERTERS; BURST SWITCHING; DC CONVERTERS; DESIGN CRITERION; HIGH VOLTAGE DEVICES; HIGH-FREQUENCY (HF); HIGH-VOLTAGE (HV); LONG TERM STABILITY; MOSFETS; POWER DEVICES; POWER DIODES; POWER MOSFETS; POWER SWITCHING; SIC DIODES; SILICON CARBIDE (SIC); SILICON DIODES; SWITCHING CONDITIONS; SWITCHING POWER CONVERTERS; SYSTEM OPERATIONS; TEST SYSTEMS;

DIODES; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; EXHIBITIONS; MOSFET DEVICES; POWER CONVERTERS; POWER ELECTRONICS; SILICON; SILICON CARBIDE; SYSTEM STABILITY; TESTING;

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT TESTING;

EID: 46449085481     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APEX.2007.357673     Document Type: Conference Paper

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