Improving the emitter turn-off thyristor for parallel operation

PESC Record - IEEE Annual Power Electronics Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1918-1922

  Huang, Alex Q ^a   Xigen, Zhou ^b   Bin, Chen ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LINEAR TECHNOLOGY CORP   (United States)

Author keywords

Current sharing; ETO; Parallel operation

Indexed keywords

CURRENT SHARING; DYNAMIC CURRENTS; DYNAMIC VOLTAGES; EMITTER TURN-OFF THYRISTOR; ETO; GATE CURRENTS; LOAD CURRENTS; NEW SERIES; PARALLEL OPERATION; PARALLEL OPERATIONS; STATIC CURRENTS; STORAGE TIME;

ELECTRIC SWITCHGEAR; THYRISTORS;

POWER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 48349089594     PISSN: 02759306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PESC.2007.4342296     Document Type: Conference Paper

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6. Alex Q. Huang, Xigen Zhou and Bin Chen, "Physics-based Model for Emitter Turn-Off Thyristor (ETO)", PESC 2007