Development and test of a 260 kVA inverter with a passive soft-switching snubber

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1721-1726

  Chen, Lihua ^a   Joseph, Alan ^a   Tang, Qingsong ^a,b   Peng, Fang Z ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; EXHIBITIONS; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

APPLIED (CO); EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS; INVERTER LOSSES; MAIN CIRCUIT; PROTOTYPING; SNUBBER PARAMETERS; SOFT-SWITCHING; VOLTAGE OVERSHOOTS;

POWER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 46449124999     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APEX.2007.357751     Document Type: Conference Paper

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