Design and analysis of a 270kW five-level DC/DC converter for solid state transformer using 10kV SiC power devices

PESC Record - IEEE Annual Power Electronics Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 245-251

  Yang, Liyu ^a   Zhao, Tiefu ^a   Wang, Jun ^a   Huang, Alex Q ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVENTIONAL POWER; DC/DC CONVERTERS; DESIGN AND ANALYSIS; FAST SWITCHING; FLYING CAPACITORS; HIGH FREQUENCIES; HIGH POWERS; HIGH VOLTAGES; HIGH-FREQUENCY OPERATIONS; KEY COMPONENTS; MOSFETS; P-I-N DIODES; POWER DEVICES; POWER-MOSFETS; SIC DEVICES; SOFT-SWITCHING; SOLID STATES; SWITCHING PERFORMANCE; THREE-LEVEL;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DC GENERATORS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; MOSFET DEVICES; POWER ELECTRONICS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; SILICON CARBIDE; SOLID STATE DEVICES; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SWITCHING;

POWER TRANSFORMERS;

EID: 48349091993     PISSN: 02759306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PESC.2007.4341996     Document Type: Conference Paper

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